Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle Lucian Vogel but this one struck me

but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders--or oligarchs--in training) plotting to steal and hide the contents of the basket of another while he is sleeping

and devotion

which my photos don't do full justice

but I'd be inclined to use it as a vase

And I rather like that there are a few stains on it that look like mud

Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle Lucian Vogel but this one struck meI am not an expert in Native American beadwork, but have been lucky to find a couple of old beaded hide Sioux balls over the years, and upon spotting this rattle in a fairly unlikely place believed it to be the same and indeed, a little research makes me sure of it. (I have found a fair number of figural "amulets" out there of a very similar manner, though rattles seem much scarcer.) Made for a child's hand, with these wonderful bright eyes, red