Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina coffee set I have a vague notion

I have a vague notion that this drawing may have been done by Swedish artist Beata Mårtensson (1880-1956)

a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi

I am really not sure the age or origins of this piece

requiring the assistance of my smart mother to put it back together

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina coffee set I have a vague notionYou know I love an old carved shoe, and even more so when it is a snuff box, and even more so when its got such terrifically elongated proportions as this one, and a fantastic surface too. I believe this is quite an early one, earlyish 19th c. I would guess, and I love how small the hollow for snuff is compared with the scale of the shoe itself. It appears to me the surface was given stained (including black drawn laces) and then given a coat or more