Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass and the turn them when

and the turn them when closed to keep it locked

which is obvious from the back but not much noticeable from the front unless one is looking for it

which I believe is a bit of underpainting showing through

(And then the shepherd would return just the same look

it became a spa town and has since been called "Bad Windsheim"--and perhaps the "3 KL" under R

Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass and the turn them whenMy 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