A hat maker's tool called a tollicker/tolliker, though I can't find much information on them. [IMG]...
https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2018/12/26/vintage-singer-featherweight-whats-hype
Probably safe in calling it "vintage", but anything more definite is a stretch, unless you know of some context that we do not.
The stitching fiber looks like sisal.
Depending on its size, yours looks like an older version of this Mexican tortilla basket, made of palm fibers (8" diam.): [IMG]...
The image looks like a chromolithograph. In the second half of the 19th century, methods of transfer and offset lithography were developed that...
@Rosiposey posted another inquiry about this rank badge under textiles, where there was a more detailed discussion....
I agree that it looks African, but I cannot add anything more definitive.
"In 1809, Englishman John Heathcoat invented a machine that could make the most tedious element of lace, the mesh ground. By the mid-1800s,...
Legs for something heavy and short, (missing 2).
Call me curious, but I would like to see a better view of the base. Details of construction sometimes can help identify an object, suggest an...
Was it carved/hollowed out from the bottom? A gourd starts out basically hollow, and only needs an opening cut into it. Can we see the bottom? Is...
Everything looks correct for Native American work and, as @komokwa said, made with Hong Kong sea grass cordage, and wood splints. I don't see any...
The shape and structure, and the faded colors, look typical of northeastern Native American work. Such string/yarn holders were sometimes made...
It doesn't look like it was ever part of something else, just a large cobble that someone decided to carve a face into. Not a style I recognize...
@April07, I would be interested in reading more about this. Can you please post a reference/link? Thanks.
Based on this example, yours appears to be quite faded: [IMG]
Perhaps Balinese, where they make many carvings of suar wood. [IMG] https://www.amazon.com/NOVICA-Toward-Brown-Yoga-Sculpture/dp/B00817HY2Q...
Just for future acquisitions, it might be helpful to consider that by 1975 almost any pottery made for sale by a Native American would include a...
Nor do I. Just a coarse clay body that makes it look "primitive".
Separate names with a comma.
