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

but instead in the heel

Then on reverse a much more controlled "March to Mexico

I'm listing as a set of 9 (there is a 10th that is slightly damaged but I'll send it along as well)

along with a carved spruce gum box listed separately

what looks to be an acquisition number

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