Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep painted cochiti drum and the gold and white

and the gold and white painted detail on the sticks

as there is a very careful mend (plug) in the wood at lower right

I've included tons of pictures as I think it is so lovely

these became popular tourist items in Oaxaca the 1940's with the construction of the Pan-American Highway

Sliding off the lid on one side reveals one board

Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep painted cochiti drum and the gold and whiteI swooned when I spotted this one, sold to me by a favorite dealer from Maine, and which I am quite sure is 19th c. New England. Since finding a very similarly constructed finely beaded needlebook a month or so ago (that one with a white New England house and sentiment "Remember Me" spelled out in tiny seed beads, just the size of these) I have been obsessed; not many of these out there, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if this was made by the same