Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface antique tin man Really a sweet little painting

Really a sweet little painting

in Northampton

1 7/8" long x 7/8" tall and wide

It appears to have been used as a  reference for a "Eskimo Art" exhibition at Northwest Michigan College in 1979

circa 1940s

Antique Hand-painted Checkerboard on Tin with Insanely Beautiful Surface antique tin man Really a sweet little paintingI find this game board spectacularly beautiful, with that creamy white paint making me swoon, and with the most phenomenal surface, that also has some mystery about it, which comes from the intermingling of the aged paint and tin it was painted upon brown and rust and silver all together, difficult to know quite where one ends and another begins. It was quite surprising at first to pick it up and find it quite light in weight, only then understanding