Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket There is a little pinkish

There is a little pinkish tone at lower right

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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

'whatever became of the Pretty Munchkin girl whom Nick Chopper was engaged to marry before the Wicked Witch enchanted his axe and he traded his fleet for tin

Pair of Antique Super Minimal Noisemakers plaited cedar bark basket There is a little pinkishIt 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