Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket handmade paper books which will stay raised half

which will stay raised half way up or one ahead and one behind

but then I don't know a whole lot about the variety of telegrams that were issued

The top fits snugly over the bottom

Like the carved panel just listed

Plus this great little hand-drawn curl of a tail

Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket handmade paper books which will stay raised halfI 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