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

(She also feels to me a bit like a nurse

I find this so beautiful I'm almost inclined to change my name so as to have it as my monogram

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

one forearm

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