Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun balletic concealed by the frame

concealed by the frame

used to determine who would buy the next round

Pretty uncommon to find one with an eagle--on two opposite sides here

Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented --my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet

Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun balletic concealed by the frameI 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