Extremely Fine 1870s-80s Macah Nootka Bear Grass and Cedar Bark Basket with Indigo Design (Some Damage) pretzel shaped and the gestural lines around

and the gestural lines around them

criminal folk icons re-presented and re-circulated through a sort of several degrees removed blurry filter a few generations later

It seems likely that each moved forward and back a little as the carousel rotated

making them seem rather erotic together (and/or illustrative of the term "gunplay

3 1/16 x 5 1/8

Extremely Fine 1870s-80s Macah Nootka Bear Grass and Cedar Bark Basket with Indigo Design (Some Damage) pretzel shaped and the gestural lines aroundThis is the finest Makah Nookta, Native American of the Northwest coast, I have ever had in my possession, and I have handled a fair number and looked at many more than that. Hard to judge scale from photos I know, but the weave here is just impossibly tiny and tight. Stunning. And the banded patterns show the most lovely soft indigo blue; the original more intense purple is visible on the interior. 1870s 80s; there is a very good section on the Burke