Makah Bottle Basket
Makah polychrome basketry bottle having whale boat, birds and flag motifs. Once bright, now faded. May or may not once have had a basketry lid now missing. 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. 10"H x 2 1/4"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 10"H x 2 1/4"D
$385.00
Original: $1,100.00
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Makah Bottle Basket
Makah polychrome basketry bottle having whale boat, birds and flag motifs. Once bright, now faded. May or may not once have had a basketry lid now missing. 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. 10"H x 2 1/4"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 10"H x 2 1/4"D
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Makah polychrome basketry bottle having whale boat, birds and flag motifs. Once bright, now faded. May or may not once have had a basketry lid now missing. 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. 10"H x 2 1/4"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 10"H x 2 1/4"D
