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Makah Trinket Basket, Native, Basketry, Vertical makah, native, Native American, native: basketry, native: basketry: northwest - makah, native: basketry: vertical, nootka, Northwest - Makah, Unknown
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Makah Trinket Basket, Native, Basketry, Vertical makah, native, Native American, native: basketry, native: basketry: northwest - makah, native: basketry: vertical, nootka, Northwest - Makah, Unknown Makah Trinket Basket makah, native, Native American, native: basketry, native: basketry: northwest - makah, native: basketry: vertical, nootka, Northwest - Makah, Unknown Makah Trinket Basket makah, native, Native American, native: basketry, native: basketry: northwest - makah, native: basketry: vertical, nootka, Northwest - Makah, Unknown Makah Trinket Basket makah, native, Native American, native: basketry, native: basketry: northwest - makah, native: basketry: vertical, nootka, Northwest - Makah, Unknown

Makah trinket basket

Item Number: AF0816

Finely woven Makah - Nootka polychrome figurative lidded trinket basket showing whales, whalers and seagulls. Domed lid. 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 - Makah, Native American

SIZE: 2 1/2"H x 3"D

PRICE $500

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