Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium and about dynamics between the

and about dynamics between the rulers

2 15/16" t x 11/16" w x 3/4" deep

with ceramic yellow-glazed beads interspersed

it measures 1 1/4" wide x 1 1/8" tall x 1/4" deep

and I would think late 19th or early 20th century

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium and about dynamics between theA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on