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Collection of Makah Trinket Baskets

Collection of Makah Trinket Baskets

Diminutive collection of 8 Makah/Nootka polychrome lidded trinket baskets. Two oval, six round. Figurative having whales, whaling boats, seagulls and reptiles. Smallest exceptionally tight. In the 1860s the Makah people at Neah Bay developed a cottage industry producing trinket baskets. These were very labor intensive, fully twined baskets of twisted cedar bark. Through the 1930s they wove thousands of the small colorful trinket baskets for sale.

PERIOD: Late 19th Century

ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American

SIZE: Smallest 1 1/2"; Largest 2 1/2" x 2"

$2,400.00
Collection of Makah Trinket Baskets—
$2,400.00

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Collection of Makah Trinket Baskets

Diminutive collection of 8 Makah/Nootka polychrome lidded trinket baskets. Two oval, six round. Figurative having whales, whaling boats, seagulls and reptiles. Smallest exceptionally tight. In the 1860s the Makah people at Neah Bay developed a cottage industry producing trinket baskets. These were very labor intensive, fully twined baskets of twisted cedar bark. Through the 1930s they wove thousands of the small colorful trinket baskets for sale.

PERIOD: Late 19th Century

ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American

SIZE: Smallest 1 1/2"; Largest 2 1/2" x 2"

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Diminutive collection of 8 Makah/Nootka polychrome lidded trinket baskets. Two oval, six round. Figurative having whales, whaling boats, seagulls and reptiles. Smallest exceptionally tight. In the 1860s the Makah people at Neah Bay developed a cottage industry producing trinket baskets. These were very labor intensive, fully twined baskets of twisted cedar bark. Through the 1930s they wove thousands of the small colorful trinket baskets for sale.

PERIOD: Late 19th Century

ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American

SIZE: Smallest 1 1/2"; Largest 2 1/2" x 2"