Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher And what a fantastic treatment

And what a fantastic treatment of the stump he is perched on

Made of cut and knotted strips of fabric

a sense of holiness

undermining the capacity for time to fly

especially on the hand

Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher And what a fantastic treatmentAn unusual one. There are wrapped birch bark boxes of this ilk that are described Scandinavian, and others described as Native American I am really not entirely sure about this one, but I do know that it is an old one, 19th century I do believe, with iron nails holding it together here and there. I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark let alone a heart! and, curiously, the appears to be an image of a few playing cards showing