Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass (And then the shepherd would

(And then the shepherd would return just the same look

really nice and useful for everything

which I believe is a bit of underpainting showing through

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

but my knowledge of comics is fairly limited

Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern hour glass (And then the shepherd wouldMy 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