2007.91.7

LATE 19TH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
3.25 in|0.75 in HIGH
(8.25 cm|1.90 cm HIGH)
2007.91.7


Finely twined basket with lid from the Nootka or Makah group along NW Coast of N. America. Simply woven cedar bottom. Beargrass overlay dyed in red, yellow, dark brown; natural. Rim of basket body is of broadly twined cedar strips to hold the finely woven basket lid. Decorated on body with image of three fishers with conical hats in boat towing a harpooned whale. PCK
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