Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India mid-century papergoods in front of a thousand

in front of a thousand eyes

and quite an old one I believe (Victorian era German I think)-- composition over carved wood frame

While I appreciate them

It was done in the 1880s

and Massachusetts women did not gain the vote until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920

Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India mid-century papergoods in front of a thousandThis one I had to use a google image search to identify, as I really could not place it; I purchased it for the beauty of the beadwork, reminding me somewhat of late 19th century Native American beaded birds and the like. I've learned that it is, I believe, from Gujarat, on the Western Coast of India, where beadwork is called moti bharat, and I think an example of "Shrifal" beading covering a coconut (Indeed, the interior is hard and has the weight