Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser wooden tool (Forgive my poor photos

(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

with toning along left edge and some calculations in pencil on reverse

with a tiger print on reverse

made by the Vermont Toy Works company

Very Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: Hooded Merganser wooden tool (Forgive my poor photosTruly 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