Charming Macah-Nootka Bear Grass Basket with Marching Black Ducks and Plaited Lid paper mask SOLD AS A PAIR

SOLD AS A PAIR

and another tiny house at bottom right

I have not spent much time trying to place the names included (many of the Roberts family as well as Downers

all stained and varnished too

) Dating to the 1930s I believe

Charming Macah-Nootka Bear Grass Basket with Marching Black Ducks and Plaited Lid paper mask SOLD AS A PAIRThis is a Macah Nootka, Northwest coast Native American lidded basket, among my very favorite baskets in the world. Here with what I believe are black ducks marching (rather than swimming) around the perimeter and specifically red headed ducks, the color on their heads faded over time, but visible as bright red on the interior. This one is unusual for the plaiting at the center of the lid (in addition to the plaiting on the bottom, which is common,