the other 11" x 3 1/2" wide
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with a string for hanging
which if not for hanging pipes would make a fine rack for a few small plants or
it's wonderfully decorated with of hundreds of tiny bits of wood
Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India svengali trick cards the other 11" x 3This 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