Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket antique school book or initiation cards-- produced as

or initiation cards-- produced as thematic groups or sets

I purchased these two chairs and table together with two more chairs

as found: 11 1/16" x 8 3/4"

I am completely taken with this antique cyanotype--formally

and features a pretty charming angel-winged piggy declaring: "I want to be an angel

Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket antique school book or initiation cards-- produced asI believe this basket is Makah Nootka though possibly Tsimshian (clearly Pacific NW Coast Native), woven of cedar bark and grass. And based on the construction, as well as the patina, I believe late 19th or very early 20th century. I much more often come across examples of lidded baskets, with plaited cedar bark rims and bases, but this is a rarer, and very lovely open one, with fully twined base, exemplifying, as I understand it, the more labor