**Originally Listed At $150**

Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, Northern Washington state to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Nootka or Makah tribes, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A woven reed basketry jar with a discoid lid that fits snugly around the rim. The exterior displays faint green and red pigment, and the interior of the vessel clearly displays a myriad of stylized purple birds as well as a brown figure inside of a red canoe. The underside of the lid is adorned with a yellow sun bearing black rays radiating from around the circumference, and the lid rim is colored in a seafoam green hue. Size (w/ lid): 4.125" W x 2.7" H (10.5 cm x 6.9 cm)

Provenance: private Orange County, California, USA collection acquired before 2000

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#156652

Slight bending to overall form of lid and body, with abrasion to small area of lid rim, and fading to exterior pigment, otherwise intact and very good. Great remains of pigment within lid and body.