Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces I am guessing she was

I am guessing she was African American

whose designs are featured here

A few weeks ago

but I am not sure about the other boxer

The black field appears to be black ink (all hand-drawn with a pen I think rather than a brush) and the animals rendered in what appears to be a combination of ink and pastel or wax crayon

Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over antique quilt pieces I am guessing she wasI've had a bit of a string of acquiring things I find quite evocative but know very little about and here's another! I have no idea how or why this gold painted ball with hooks all over came to be, but I love it as an object, and it would make a pretty effective hanger now for rings of keys, or necklaces, or sprigs of mistletoe! There is a loop at top from which it could be hung from a wire or ribbon or string I might suggest from the ceiling so as to