Gorgeous, Very Old Hand-tooled Leather Chain with Wooden End Piece antique cast bronze box making me think she may

making me think she may be a fertility figure

plus adding a poem to the backside of the page to boot

where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger their wings to raise and beaks to open --perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp

These two wonderful drinking bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador

beautfully arching arm and wonderful bulb-like form carved at the end of the strait handle

Gorgeous, Very Old Hand-tooled Leather Chain with Wooden End Piece antique cast bronze box making me think she mayI'd guess this beautiful hand tooled leather chain of sorts was once part of some sort of animal harness, but I'm not completely certain. I spotted it hanging straight down from a wall hook at an antique show in Connecticut this past weekend and thought it was just an absolutely gorgeous, super viscerally satisfying thing. The leather is hardened and nearly black, with an almost tar like crackled surface, with each link in the chain slightly wider