Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser wooden tool and a pretty good hat

and a pretty good hat too--what a lot of life in him

I'd guess it dates to the very early 20th century

(Forgive my poor photos

Makah and Nootka Northwest Coast Native American baskets (Vancouver Island/northern Washington) are my very favorites--typically small and very finely woven of bear grass with cedar bark rims and plaited bases

One of the the legs on the taller chair is a little loose and will come of out its hole

Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser wooden tool and a pretty good hatTruly the very last few today from a great bunch of old naive watercolor of birds done by someone long ago who was quite serious about his birds! Each and every one of them a charmer I think, this one portraying a proud Hooded Merganser, with especially good hand painted attribution under the patch of blue water at bottom left. 7 1 16" x 5 1 6" and in good condition, with a bit of erased pencil outline to the right of the head and right leg, which