Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket Bitossi vase with grapes I do not believe they

I do not believe they made this one

Mexican I believe and definitely with some years on him

written using a secret code

and then much more recently someone taped it to cream paper

Lovely Antique Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Twined Open Basket Bitossi vase with grapes I do not believe theyI 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