Featured Bottle basketry tribal ID

This is a large (13") basket-ed bottle that amazingly still has its cap.

The cap is plastic, so that'll help date it. I think the cap is original since the tax seal is on both it and the bottle, and they align when the lid is tightened.

There seems to be a paper label under the weaving.

Is this Tlingit? 1960's?

Thanks as always!

 

Looks like it once contained Fire Water...Nice!

BTW, I sure like your bamboo counter...

 

not Tlingit or Nootka or Makah........

it may be Klamath.....and your date may be circa correct..

 

Yeah-- what a troubled legacy that phrase has...

Yeah, it does look like other Klamath baskets. For my own info, you're basing your possible attribution on the style of weaving, right?

 

The material it is made of looks more like a type of rush used in Asian baskets, than in an Indian basket, and the colored bands don't look quite "right," in that they almost appear painted on. Plus the start on the bottom of the basket doesn't look like any Indian basket start that I've seen.

And, although the Klamath used a local rush-type material in their basketry, the stitching doesn't resemble that used by the Klamath. Nor were they ever known for using red in their baskets. So in my best judgement, I would say it isn't Native American Indian.

 

Here's one more picture of the weaving. It looks to me like there were bands of a more yellow color, now nearly totally faded, a darker line and then the larger red bands. Those other colors could just be variation in the plant material too.

 

actually , more on the material.....and the twist cap being a much more recent work than I'm used to..
taupou makes valid points I was trying to overlook..!

the weaver looks like they had a palsy......

 

It happens, as one ages. Some of it is called 'intentional tremor', an' there are other 'maturity onset' shakes an' shivers.
It's a whole helluva lot better than I could manage, fer shure!