Beautiful Northwest Coast Fine Plaited Cedar Bark Basket Boston ma but I love it all

but I love it all the more for the wear and mellowing

I first picked up this box (on a recent real-world antiquing exhibition) just for its lovely exterior

carved part is 3 1/4" tall

10" long x 6 1/8" tall x 2 3/8" deep

12" l x 12" t x 8 1/4" w

Beautiful Northwest Coast Fine Plaited Cedar Bark Basket Boston ma but I love it allSo lovely. I'm a huge fan of Northwest Coast native baskets, and one of my favorite things about some of them are their plated cedar bark bottoms so I was sold immediately upon finding this one, woven entirely of it I believe. To me there is something so satisfying, almost luxurious, about those strips, soft but sturdy, and so gorgeous in their natural color. The darker horizontal bands here I believe are cedar bark as well, dyed a darker brown. Yum.