Makah Basketry Jar
Makah basketry jar with flying bird design. Once polychrome, now faded. 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. 6" x 3"D
PERIOD: 19th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 6" x3"D
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Makah Basketry Jar
Makah basketry jar with flying bird design. Once polychrome, now faded. 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. 6" x 3"D
PERIOD: 19th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 6" x3"D
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Makah basketry jar with flying bird design. Once polychrome, now faded. 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. 6" x 3"D
PERIOD: 19th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 6" x3"D
