"Maggie Ball" in the Desert Wearing Two Hats, Striking Old Snapshot of Indigenous Woman old wooden ladle With these practice boards

With these practice boards

I love a mid 19th century folk art graphite drawing

I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont

so delicately rendered in ink

) beatific face

"Maggie Ball" in the Desert Wearing Two Hats, Striking Old Snapshot of Indigenous Woman old wooden ladle With these practice boardsQuite a amazing figure this indigenous woman cuts, between her two hats stacked tall, the wonderful mix of fabrics and garments and patterns covering her body, and most of all her striking, proud, life and desert weathered looking face, several front teeth missing. The hand written note on reverse names her as Maggie Ball and describes her shrewdness in finding things for nothing, which sounds like resourcefulness to me! It also notes that on the day