Early Makah Northwest Coast Native American Lidded Basket swedish ceramics showing a little more yellow

showing a little more yellow in first photo than actual

from that great cap (with a rather chimney-like post on top

The theme here is to "smash the fifth column" meaning to destroy traitors to the Allied forces living within those countries

where it might be used to determine the outcome of all sorts of things

and hard to argue with the loveliness of these two gentle creatures

Early Makah Northwest Coast Native American Lidded Basket swedish ceramics showing a little more yellowAnother Makah basket, from the Northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, which I will always scoop up when I can as they're my favorite baskets of all. The color on this one has faded, as looking inside makes very clear, but it is an old one, and beautifully constructed, made entirely of bear grass and cedar bark, with no incorporation of raffia, as seems to have became the common case post 1930s or so; I believe this one is