Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers Peruvian bowls with faces She just needs a small

She just needs a small frame to make her perfect

my guess is that is Bohemian and dates to the 1920s or 30s

surely it was thrown up like a balloon and shot at mid air

and just to right sort in which to keep

and “Precious and Other Stones Used in Jewelry”

Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers Peruvian bowls with faces She just needs a smallI have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other basketry covered carved barrel of this sort, that one dated 1922 and from Maine. This one I found in PA, but I might bet it was made by the same person, or some small community of individuals such a curious hybrid, and so particular, with the basketry seeming Native American, I'd speculate Mi'kmaq, and the rest very naive American folk tramp art. The basketry on that one was somewhat more elaborate,