Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers bone bat with just some light wear

with just some light wear to the black stain

I think these are perfect for filling with favorite rocks and shells

1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana McKinney (1909-2008) I have in the shop--and they are both truly luminous

Rather poignant I think

Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers bone bat with just some light wearI have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other basketry covered carved barrel of this sort, that one dated 1922 and from Maine. This one I found in PA, but I might bet it was made by the same person, or some small community of individuals such a curious hybrid, and so particular, with the basketry seeming Native American, I'd speculate Mi'kmaq, and the rest very naive American folk tramp art. The basketry on that one was somewhat more elaborate,