Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery grazing hare

grazing hare

and is big enough to hold a fair stash of something precious

with a bit of collage on top

with some surface wear/perhaps some loss of decoration to the lower half

Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery grazing hareThe beadwork on this Native American coin purse earlyish 20th c., made for the tourist trade is very fine, done with tiny seed beads very tightly stitched to hide. And how to resist these wonderful blue birds, one pair on either side, forever facing one another as they perch on what looks both like bough and an anchor? I don't know enough to identify the tribe with certainty, but I believe Columbia River region Plateau, and am confident of the age, I