Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium There are a few small

There are a few small chips in the exterior bark along the edges

with ceramic yellow-glazed beads interspersed

Long sides measure 5 3/4" long

shorts and boots

which can make them very naughty

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium There are a few smallA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on