Mosaic Ladies on Plaster Plaque Fabulous Folk Art Creation Southwestern what a lot of effort

what a lot of effort went into this chest

7 1/2" tall x 6" d

with a great silhouette and wonderful surface decoration rendered in a few shades of lighter brown plus a couple of spots of deep red at the center of what look little suns or flowers

with what I take as an eagle (though could be a hawk

It measures 4 1/2" tall x 1 1/2" wide

Mosaic Ladies on Plaster Plaque Fabulous Folk Art Creation Southwestern what a lot of effortThere are obvious losses to this super folky mosaic mostly to the wooden beads that form a sort of halo around our woman at left, though a few others here and there but I think the figures are so fantastic I don't care, and the losses impart an appropriate sense of this as a dug up ancient treasure! The orange beaded face of woman in profile at right, and the blue and yellow beading on the dress (robe? toga?) of the figure at left, and especially her