Sorry, just adding/clarifying your earlier post. I knew what you meant, wasn't sure everyone would....
Interesting thread. I agree that recordings on tape have a limited life span, due to physical deterioration over time. And I can see how some...
Just to make online searching more interesting, the term "coke bottle knife" refers to a common knife pattern having a swelled-center, but only...
Here is a directory to drawings and photos of many common cartouches. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Egyptian_cartouches
I'd go along with AF, guessing that this is "Egyptian" in the same way that an item may be "NW Coast native" when made by someone who saw a NW...
In the last photo, I'd think it is crazing in the finish rather than scratches. Cleaning or not cleaning the painted-over writing is not going to...
I do know something about guitars, have been playing them for 50 years plus.... You'd call this a steel-string acoustic guitar, with a trapeze...
Same technique, in any case.
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The Tohono O'Odham horsehair turtles are also very traditional; dimensions might help; here's a sweetgrass Mohawk turtle; 6 1/2" long......
I would certainly defer to the opinion of others on this; it does appear to be a coiled item like pine-needle baskets. Dimensions weren't given,...
Tiny baskets and miniature items are sometimes made by the Tohono O'Odham from horse-hair, and the tortoise could well be one of those. Made...
Looks like a very interesting group of items.
Lefton, it is interesting that the review stuck with the relisted item. Good work! It appears that the item in question has a "write a review"...
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I'll add my hopes to that also, Komo.
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It is hard to tell if that was intended to be a fid or not, it is so beat-up; not sure it is rounded enough to be a fid. Maybe just a punch or...
Or other maritime knife; if the little pointy thing is rounded but pointy it is a "fid" used for working with rope; splicing, and so on. Fids are...
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