Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle nude sculpture Configurable in several different positions

Configurable in several different positions

I'd call it him a sphynx of a pig

which appears gray-black until held to light

the brass on the interior

giving the whole thing a sort of miraculous precariousness

Wonderful Early-Mid 20th Century Sioux Beaded Figural Child's Rattle nude sculpture Configurable in several different positionsI am not an expert in Native American beadwork, but have been lucky to find a couple of old beaded hide Sioux balls over the years, and upon spotting this rattle in a fairly unlikely place believed it to be the same and indeed, a little research makes me sure of it. (I have found a fair number of figural "amulets" out there of a very similar manner, though rattles seem much scarcer.) Made for a child's hand, with these wonderful bright eyes, red