Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Habana best known for his viking

best known for his viking figures

It folds back up elegantly to form a rectangular box with perfectly square sides

they are really inspiring me add vintage Japanese fans to my ongoing collecting obsessions

A beautiful old never used horsehair brush with its original paper wrapper

with its terrific orange and dark blue banded Art Deco style decoration against green body

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Habana best known for his vikingI don't know a lot about the origins of this fantastic basket, but am pretty certain it is African, and possibly Tutsi, a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi, renowned for the baskets made by its women weavers. I believe a basket like this would have been made for the transport of goods, and that it once had a handle for carrying that was attached to the sides. I think it is truly an extraordinary object, with this wonderful bulbous,