Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket Bitossi vase with grapes ) It seems likely that

)  It seems likely that it was drawn as the introductory page to a series of poems about friendship in a manuscript

I don't believe antique but it definitely has some age to it

The book was published in Reading PA in 1811

I really love dominoes

written using a secret code

Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket Bitossi vase with grapes ) It seems likely thatI 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