Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun plaited cedar bark basket About 3 7/8" long

About 3 7/8" long

and definitely like he or she would like not to be disturbed

but its maker

imparting an especially intense sense of place and history

It looks to me that perhaps the mirror was once framed on the backside as there are four small iron nails visible

Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun plaited cedar bark basket About 3 7/8" longI 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