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Makah Trinket Basket
Makah - Nootka lidded trinket basket with top knot and bulbus form. Banded geometrics and cedar strips, whaling boat and seagulls. 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. 5 1/2"H x 5"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 5 1/2"H x 5"D
Makah - Nootka lidded trinket basket with top knot and bulbus form. Banded geometrics and cedar strips, whaling boat and seagulls. 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. 5 1/2"H x 5"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 5 1/2"H x 5"D
$700.00
Makah Trinket Basket—
$700.00
Description
Makah - Nootka lidded trinket basket with top knot and bulbus form. Banded geometrics and cedar strips, whaling boat and seagulls. 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. 5 1/2"H x 5"D
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Northwest Coast - Makah, Native American
SIZE: 5 1/2"H x 5"D
