Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) antique glass head pins This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta

This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta hanging “effigy” basket is made of coiled Louisiana native pine needles sewn together with raffia

but it easily propped in the frame and one would never know--but with lots of character

And surely out man in blue is wearing a uniform--I presume military

it is protected by a wonderfully worn leather cover

an Indigenous people who live along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) antique glass head pins This wonderful little turtle-shaped CoushattaLots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in