To Paul from Grand-ma, 1925 Cut Paper Lattice With Brilliantly Toned Pink Backing Froebel gift plus a nice warm patina--I'd

plus a nice warm patina--I'd guess it's a hundred years old or so

There is a long tradition of Zuni earthenware owl fetishes

though it seems perfectly stable

Richard Fleischner images

To Paul from Grand-ma, 1925 Cut Paper Lattice With Brilliantly Toned Pink Backing Froebel gift plus a nice warm patina--I'dI love a miracle of toning, and don't think it gets much better than this. And the cut paper work a 1925 gift from Grand ma! (certainly exercising paper cutting skills acquired in her youth.) I'd be inclined to frame these side by side as shown in first photo, with the lattice like cutting and the toned paper (its original bright red pink on reverse) both full of dynamism and embodiments of the passage time. (But the paper cut in front of the