Beautiful Small Cochiti Pueblo Painted Handheld Drum with Handle folk art pattern including this

including this

The chalkboard

and there is some little something lightly rattling around inside of it too

If Brancusi were to carve a whimsy

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Beautiful Small Cochiti Pueblo Painted Handheld Drum with Handle folk art pattern including thisI 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