Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India mid-century papergoods 5" t x 2 1/4"

5" t x 2 1/4" w x 2 1/16" d and in very good vintage condition

in front of a thousand eyes

with a beautiful warm dry wood patina

Other than the fading

" Brown grew up in Boston's Brookline neighborhood

Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India mid-century papergoods 5" t x 2 1/4"This one I had to use a google image search to identify, as I really could not place it; I purchased it for the beauty of the beadwork, reminding me somewhat of late 19th century Native American beaded birds and the like. I've learned that it is, I believe, from Gujarat, on the Western Coast of India, where beadwork is called moti bharat, and I think an example of "Shrifal" beading covering a coconut (Indeed, the interior is hard and has the weight