MakahBasket

Makah lidded basket with top knot. Two whale boats and two seabirds on side design. 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: Early 20th Century

ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American

SIZE: 5" x 3 1/2"