Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher especially on the hand

especially on the hand

undermining the capacity for time to fly

pure delight

Made of cut and knotted strips of fabric

Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher especially on the handAn unusual one. There are wrapped birch bark boxes of this ilk that are described Scandinavian, and others described as Native American I am really not entirely sure about this one, but I do know that it is an old one, 19th century I do believe, with iron nails holding it together here and there. I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark let alone a heart! and, curiously, the appears to be an image of a few playing cards showing