Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk vintage carved beaver this feels like a museum

this feels like a museum piece

It measures 4 1/2" tall and 7" in diameter at widest

Kelly was known for studies of birds and animals

and some dulling/clouding of the finish on the top

Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk vintage carved beaver this feels like a museumThis wonderful late 19th or very early 20th century basket I purchased from the estate of Elaine Bradbury Vercoe, a descendant (the great granddaughter, I believe) of Colorado pioneer William Chase Bradbury (1849 1925). Held in her estate were both thousands of original antique photographs taken by Bradbury on expeditions around the Western U. S during the late 19th and early 20th century, many featuring Native Americans (as well as cowboys), along