Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery very special feeling

very special feeling

they sold me easily

with a bit of collage on top

Made in Japan 1950s-60s

who proudly noted so on the slide type box

Early 20th C. Native American Beaded Coin Purse with Pair of Birds Southern California pottery very special feelingThe 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