Tlingit Native American Basketry Wrapped Bottle, Early 20th Century handmade cutout to a Churchman's cigarette Box

to a Churchman's cigarette Box Scout in action

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

Just the face measures 6 1/2” straight across when measured from the backside

but also great just hung on the wall in the kitchen

6 1/4" diameter at widest

Tlingit Native American Basketry Wrapped Bottle, Early 20th Century handmade cutout to a Churchman's cigarette BoxI have a hard time wrapping my head around the process of so finely wrapping a bottle in woven basketry, but Tlingit basket makers of southeast Alaska were exceptional basket makers, using spruce root to create pieces like this, which I believe dates to sometime between 1900 1920s, with natural dyes for the color. Though showing a fair amount of loss, this is a very good example, with the bands of bold, quintessentially Tlingit geometric patterns