Beautiful Northwest Coast Fine Plaited Cedar Bark Basket Lorenzens Lantz ceramic mushrooms This lion was clearly made

This lion was clearly made by someone special

The backside reveals that it was likely made by a Leonard Aturill Story (whose father

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Beautiful Northwest Coast Fine Plaited Cedar Bark Basket Lorenzens Lantz ceramic mushrooms This lion was clearly madeSo lovely. I'm a huge fan of Northwest Coast native baskets, and one of my favorite things about some of them are their plated cedar bark bottoms so I was sold immediately upon finding this one, woven entirely of it I believe. To me there is something so satisfying, almost luxurious, about those strips, soft but sturdy, and so gorgeous in their natural color. The darker horizontal bands here I believe are cedar bark as well, dyed a darker brown. Yum.