Macah Northwest Coast Native American Bear Grass Basket with Whales Child's painting with bold black letters and

with bold black letters and cut to an arrow at one end

and painterly pastel walls

Plenty of wear and some rusting

but when I spotted it (in New Hampshire)

Macah Northwest Coast Native American Bear Grass Basket with Whales Child's painting with bold black letters andNative American baskets of the Pacific Northwest Coast are my very favorite baskets of all, woven of bear grass, with cedar bark around the lip and plated into the bottom, and often featuring figurative imagery relating to whaling, as is the case with this small one from the Makah Tribe of the Northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, with three whales circling around the perimeter. The design on the lid suggests both rays of sun