African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina Massachusetts Woman Suffrage making me think it bore

making me think it bore witness to at least one painting of the house or barn or garage near which it was perched

with red inside the mouth as the perfect final touch

And useful too should one need to measure a milldam

almost snowman-looking face simultaneously belies and perfectly foreshadows what's in store when one pulls him apart

With horizontal folds original to it and a bit of a shadow image on the paper

African Pokot Coiled Grain Basket with Leather Strap and Ultra Rich Patina Massachusetts Woman Suffrage making me think it boreI 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