Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds bentwood handle it is hard and smooth

it is hard and smooth

and wonderfully painted-- I think those red nostrils and gnarly teeth are the best of all

(or just admiring:)

found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all

Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds bentwood handle it is hard and smoothThe 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