Rare Plains Native American Elaborately Beaded Hide Ball (2 7/8' Inch) cast iron gate weight 1920s box to find it

1920s box to find it almost completely full of "Sterling" white chalk

This is beautifully designed and very nicely crafted old handmade solitaire game board--engaging to play

or perhaps could be put to use in a new way

I have included a photo

in what I am close to certain was the original frame

Rare Plains Native American Elaborately Beaded Hide Ball (2 7/8' Inch) cast iron gate weight 1920s box to find itI purchased this beautifully beaded ball at an antique show in Maine, from a dealer who told me he had held onto it for a lot of years, but didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen another like it, but assumed it was Native American, and found (find) it quite exquisite (and also reminding me of the fancy antique Pennsylvania folk art yarn balls I have been coveting of late). It took no time to find a handful of other examples like it (a couple of