Marvelous Antique Folk Art Indian Chief Watercolor Drawing treen vesta but with lots of room

but with lots of room inside it would be handy for keeping all sorts of things

I then opened the box to discover the whetstone inside--making this quite the useful box

I believe he was once part of a family of four

So many contexts in which this would be good

Earlyish 20th century I believe

Marvelous Antique Folk Art Indian Chief Watercolor Drawing treen vesta but with lots of roomI purchased this and a second naive watercolor drawing, surely by the same maker, from a seller in Pennsylvania, who found them tucked in the back of a late 19th century scrapbook. With gun in one hand, dagger in the other, this incredible feathered headdress, painted face, and streaming hair, I find it incredibly expressive and potent, in a manner not unlike ledger drawings, though I am pretty sure this is not a Native American piece. Executed in