Beautiful Small Cochiti Pueblo Painted Handheld Drum with Handle antique reading book but instead in the heel

but instead in the heel

Signed 'Cockcroft' on the back

15 3/4" tall

who made a series of pins in this glaze palette

along with a carved spruce gum box listed separately

Beautiful Small Cochiti Pueblo Painted Handheld Drum with Handle antique reading book but instead in the heelI found a painted drum similar to this one a year or so ago and have kept a close eye out ever since as I think theyre stunningly beautiful. Though I found it in Vermont, I am certain it is Cochiti Pueblo, from the Taos area of New Mexico, and believe it dates to the earlyish 20th century. The body is wood (likely cottonwood I think), and the drum heads are stretched rawhide, pulled taut by sinew, which is still holding very tight, and it retains it