Beautiful Small Native Am. Drum, Presumed Cochiti Pueblo, Earlyish 20th C. hand-printed it was hand-painted with a

it was hand-painted with a tea pot and pillow in red and other tea ceremony accoutrements in copper and silver — nothing extraneous

are signed and dated at bottom

I'd guess maybe 1940s or so

The box measures 2 5/8" cubed and features a slide top and finger jointed corners

made all the better by the red center stripes that have endured here and there

Beautiful Small Native Am. Drum, Presumed Cochiti Pueblo, Earlyish 20th C. hand-printed it was hand-painted with aIve been admiring Pueblo drums like this for a long time, finding the colors and patterns as well as the construction completely gorgeous, so was pretty excited to find this one the other day. Though I found it in Maine, I am pretty certain it is Cochiti, from the Taos area of New Mexico, and believe it dates to to the earlyish 20th century. The body is wood (likely cottonwood I think), and the drum heads are stretched rawhide, pulled taut by sinew,