Makah polychrome basketry undilating bottle jar with early museum mark 66.21A. Once may or may not have had a basketry lid now missing. Unsual shape. 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. 7" x 2 1/2"D
PERIOD: 19th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest - Makah, Native American