Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers pencil and watercolor Martha Arquero (1944-) is a

Martha Arquero (1944-) is a well known Cochiti pueblo artist best known for her "frog storytellers" like this one

but offer them up here individually

some aging to the exterior surface as documented

it shows all of those years

buttons drawn down his front

Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers pencil and watercolor Martha Arquero (1944-) is aI love an abacus, but there are a lot of them out there and I usually make myself let them go. This, though, is the loveliest abacus I've seen in a long while, with an unusual recessed design, and a nice softness to the color on the wooden beads. Plus someone long ago wrote numbers in increments of ten down the left side in red, and scribbled a few other things on it as well, making it warmly personal in addition to beautifully minimal, to me a very