Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Sioux Indian this is a lovely

this is a lovely

Bisque with graphic black details as well as a faint orange stain on its beak and webbed feet

where it very well may have been squirreled away for many decades

features a stylized white and taupe bird against a blue ground

Finely Woven Lidded Basket with Fantastic Shape, Presumed African Sioux Indian this is a lovelyI don't know a lot about the origins of this fantastic basket, but am pretty certain it is African, and possibly Tutsi, a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi, renowned for the baskets made by its women weavers. I believe a basket like this would have been made for the transport of goods, and that it once had a handle for carrying that was attached to the sides. I think it is truly an extraordinary object, with this wonderful bulbous,