Tightly Woven Antique Tutsi Basket with Rich Patina vintage crib maybe from a wire or

maybe from a wire or dowel

or maybe never was

and quite a different beast than the theorem still lives of fruits and flowers that were much more common

The first thing I bought last week in Nashville

Tightly Woven Antique Tutsi Basket with Rich Patina vintage crib maybe from a wire orThis to my eye very beautiful old basket is Tutsi (a Rwandan ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region, also known as Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, and particularly renowned for the fineness of their basketry, woven by women). Distinguishing Tutsi baskets are their very intricate weaving patterns, use of very fine woven material, and extraordinarily tight weave. Also common to these baskets, which were made to be used, and used and used, but also