Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket and I believe it dates

and I believe it dates from the early 20th century when it would have been used as a festival dance mask

Sold in the frame I found it in

There were a few different iterations of double sided "Pocket Signal Disks" like this one--I've seen one issued by the Boy Scouts

which feels rather miraculous

paper not very brittle

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket and I believe it datesThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches