Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern American Text Book for Letters numbered disks tick forward

numbered disks tick forward

and date '82 to the right of signature

and a sliding lid that fits just right and slides easily

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

Finely woven

Lovely Small Antique NW Coast Native Basket with Geometric Pattern American Text Book for Letters numbered disks tick forwardMy 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