Beautiful Small Native Am. Drum, Presumed Cochiti Pueblo, Earlyish 20th C. hand-printed I love the way in

I love the way in which the two birds overlap as they perch on their leafy branch

are signed and dated at bottom

though am not certain

it was hand-painted with a tea pot and pillow in red and other tea ceremony accoutrements in copper and silver — nothing extraneous

made all the better by the red center stripes that have endured here and there

Beautiful Small Native Am. Drum, Presumed Cochiti Pueblo, Earlyish 20th C. hand-printed I love the way inIve been admiring Pueblo drums like this for a long time, finding the colors and patterns as well as the construction completely gorgeous, so was pretty excited to find this one the other day. Though I found it in Maine, I am pretty certain it is Cochiti, from the Taos area of New Mexico, and believe it dates to to the earlyish 20th century. The body is wood (likely cottonwood I think), and the drum heads are stretched rawhide, pulled taut by sinew,