African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina art of the eskimo I love a good painted

I love a good painted rock

Anther sweet old folk art box this week invested with lots of love

giving it all a rather magical and even more otherworldly feeling

They are my very favorite examples of her work that I have seen

But I especially love that number 5

African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina art of the eskimo I love a good paintedI find this basket a deeply beautiful thing, in very large part for its very rich patina which is what won the dealer I purchased it from too, who lived with it for some 30+ years. It is African, from the Pokot tribe of Kenya I believe, and would have been used for grain and flour. Clearly very much used, with a leather carrying strap that wore through at center from the weight of carrying things in it. (One broken end was pulled through a hole in the