Haitian Landscape Painting with Animals, Signed ET WIndzor mosaic This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta

This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta hanging “effigy” basket is made of coiled Louisiana native pine needles sewn together with raffia

I have found one other reference to a signed toucan dating to the first quarter of the 20th century

they are in good used condition with wear documented in  photos

both have their original stickers on the botttom

I'm not entirely sure if the beetle itself was perfect to begin with

Haitian Landscape Painting with Animals, Signed ET WIndzor mosaic This wonderful little turtle-shaped CoushattaI found a trove of treasures at the estate sale of artist and gallerist Cynthia Numark Prelack, whose Iguana gallery on Boston's Newbury Street focused on the work of Haitian artists. From the many many Haitian paintings filling her brownstone, this is the one I brought home, as I fell in love with it immediately. I love the composition, organized around this river that runs from foreground to distant horizon, and which carves the landscape into three