The Kanawha Madonna is a wood carving of a person holding a four-legged animal.
[1] The carving is part of the collection of the West Virginia State Museum and displayed in the Cultural Center as an example of prehistoric Native American wood carving.
The base has a hole in the bottom, possibly for mounting on a pole.
[1] In 1897, four teenaged boys found the statue while exploring a cave set in a cliff above the lower New River, in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
[1] A member of the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, Dr. John P. Hale acquired the statue.