Sculptural Group of Five Pre-Columbian Pots monk carving and the little bird delivers

and the little bird delivers your smoke in its little beak

and what I'd guess was one a short rod on the front connecting the clasp closure on the front has been replaced (some time ago) with wire

Really charming and in great vintage condition

From Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington

and on the back are two of the its original battens

Sculptural Group of Five Pre-Columbian Pots monk carving and the little bird deliversI purchased these five vessels together and am listing them as a group as I think they are gorgeous together, lending themselves to all sorts of sculptural arrangements and making me want to paint a Morandi esque still life of them. I purchased them from a seller more knowledgeable than I, who described them as Pre Columbian Mexican, and I confident that is the case. Photos document each as well as the group. On the white one is written 1829 on one