Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass where one might see all

where one might see all sorts of things in them

really nice and useful for everything

whispering in their ears

looking almost as if coated in tar and with the salvaged core peeking out here and there

and the turn them when closed to keep it locked

Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass where one might see allMy photos do no justice to this one the colors of the triangles, particularly, are both subtler and more luminous than comes across, and the scale of the basket is quite small, with the weave of that grass is very tight and fine. The geometric decoration on it, also suggesting mountains, makes me think Tlingit, but I am not completely sure, certainly it bears a close resemblance to Macah Nootka baskets too; NW Coast in any case. And surely it once had