Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun balletic 7 1/2" l x 5"

7 1/2" l x 5" w x 4 1/8" t and weighs about 3 1/2 pounds

Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented --my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet

producing thousands of images of archeological ruins

So many sad hours I pass through that no one knows anything about

Pretty uncommon to find one with an eagle--on two opposite sides here

Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun balletic 7 1/2" l x 5"I have a particular love for Macah baskets of the Pacific Northwest Coast finely woven of bear grass and cedar bark, they are some of the finest baskets in the world, especially the antique ones, like this one, which I believe dates to the first decade or so of the 20th century. The Macah developed a cottage industry of selling baskets to tourists as early as the 1860s, highly valued now. Pretty uncommon to find one with an eagle on two opposite sides