Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl which I would guess date

which I would guess date from the the 1940s or earlier

This hide shows some age but is this mask is in very good clean condition

still lives and figures

4 5/8" across from inside of lip

and it appears that there was once a sticker on the bottom

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl which I would guess dateI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second