Intricate antique medium-sized coiled Western Washington COWLITZ SOUTHERN COAST SALISH Native American fully-imbricated western red cedar berry basket with a polychrome repeating vee design known as the "salmon gill" pattern encircling the basketry body, accented with isolated "hands or fingers" motifs. Imbrication executed in cedar bark, mud-dyed cedar bark, yellow-dyed beargrass, and white beargrass. Oval start decorated with white beargrass "beading," with flaring walls and circular opening, with below-rim Cowlitz-style top loops accented with polychrome twisted "barberpole." Circa 1900.