Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun antique gameboard drawing connections between simple folded

drawing connections between simple folded shapes and things in the world--the moments abstraction and representation/signification meet

Nicely detailed fingers holding that bowl

Anne Waldman

together with the very pale eyes and outlaid hands

poetic things I've had in my possession--don't miss the photos of how the thumb wraps around the back of the bowl

Beautiful Antique Macah Beargrass and Cedar Bark Basket with Birds and Sun antique gameboard drawing connections between simple foldedI have a particular love for Macah baskets of the Pacific Northwest Coast finely woven of bear grass and cedar bark, they are some of the finest baskets in the world, especially the antique ones, like this one, which I believe dates to the first decade or so of the 20th century. The Macah developed a cottage industry of selling baskets to tourists as early as the 1860s, highly valued now. Pretty uncommon to find one with an eagle on two opposite sides