Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls is made from a mixture

is made from a mixture of the juice of the Thitsi tree and ash

It's quite different from every view--mostly blue from one side

with that seam opened on a portion of the fourth side

I believe this one dates from the late 19th century

so this likely was first used

Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls is made from a mixtureAs I've noted elsewhere, I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets, which, made of sweetgrass and ash splint, exemplify a really distinctive, and inventive, material language. Wabanaki refers to the 5 tribes living in Maine, Vermont and Eastern Canada (The Abenaki, Maliseet, MicMac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot). There are some unique attributes to the baskets of each tribe, but I am not entirely certain from which tribe this