Rare Plains Native American Elaborately Beaded Hide Ball (2 7/8' Inch) mcm brass hedgehog no breaks or cracks

no breaks or cracks

of fine Lisbon sugar cost me 58l

with a slide top on one side opening to a little compartment

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Found just in the time for the 4th of July

Rare Plains Native American Elaborately Beaded Hide Ball (2 7/8' Inch) mcm brass hedgehog no breaks or cracksI purchased this beautifully beaded ball at an antique show in Maine, from a dealer who told me he had held onto it for a lot of years, but didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen another like it, but assumed it was Native American, and found (find) it quite exquisite (and also reminding me of the fancy antique Pennsylvania folk art yarn balls I have been coveting of late). It took no time to find a handful of other examples like it (a couple of