Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle nude sculpture and farm animals perhaps most

and farm animals perhaps most of all

which appears gray-black until held to light

It seems at some point a previous (San Francisco-based) owner of this drawing pasted a blessing and inscribed a (biblical

and with a really nice warm patina

the brass on the interior

Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle nude sculpture and farm animals perhaps mostI am not an expert in Native American beadwork, but have been lucky to find a couple of old beaded hide Sioux balls over the years, and upon spotting this rattle in a fairly unlikely place believed it to be the same and indeed, a little research makes me sure of it. (I have found a fair number of figural "amulets" out there of a very similar manner, though rattles seem much scarcer.) Made for a child's hand, with these wonderful bright eyes, red