Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug I think the box is

I think the box is original to them

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets like this one

one flipped up

and some on the body too

or a bird of paradise would be pretty fabulous in it too

Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug I think the box isI'm glad for tobacco in the sense that it gave rise to so many lovely snuff boxes to love now. And with so many produced in such variety, quite a nice and endlessly rewarding! thing to collect. It's the cumulative effect of shape and scalloped lid and lacquered surface on this one that does it for me making the hinged, papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell, but in fact rather like the shell of a tortoise (as if his head and tail might