Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern American Text Book for Letters but it makes me especially

but it makes me especially happy that there is a tiny turtle smiling among them

two loose pages (a two page map)

numbered disks tick forward

filled in one direction with very fine paper full page weavings using colored paper strips for wefts woven through white paper warps

Finely woven

Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern American Text Book for Letters but it makes me especiallyMy 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