Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket at the end of the

at the end of the day it's a very fine braided and woven antique Penobscot Northeast Coast Native American basket like this one--Shaker-like in its material integrity--that really takes my breath away

including Horatio (October 26

There is a little pinkish tone at lower right

from every brick of the chimney to every leaf on the bushes and trees to every stripe on the awning and every cross of the lattice

so I'm listing it separately

Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket at the end of theIt doesn't get much more elemental than these when it comes to producing a clack or clap, which is what I love about them the most pared down (and I think very elegant) solutions to the task. The one at right shows a patent date of 1890, and is nothing more than a round glob of lead at the end of a tin strip, tethered by another tin strip to a piece of wood. (Happily, one can move the strip up and down, varying a bit the tone produced.) The other is