Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery The notebook itself: 10" x

The notebook itself: 10" x 8"

) I love these props just on their own though (especially that great yellow stool

I've seen a few of these online but had never come across a pair out in the world until finding these the other day

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

Made in Japan 1950s-60s

Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery The notebook itself: 10" xThe 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