Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery who proudly noted so on

who proudly noted so on the slide type box

they sold me easily

I've seen a few of these online but had never come across a pair out in the world until finding these the other day

The notebook itself: 10" x 8"

very special feeling

Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery who proudly noted so onThe 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