Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup molded though I do not know

though I do not know its maker

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another obsession that has revealed itself through my picking is one for unusual boxes of all shapes and sizes

All that use has resulted in a wonderful smoothness and patina

--hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup molded though I do not knowThis is a very sweet, finely woven little Native American Wabanaki (encompassing the Micmac, Penobscot, and Passamoquoddy Nations, from Maine and Eastern Canada) basket, handwoven from sweetgrass and ash splints. Based on similar examples I have seen, I believe it dates from the 1920s 1930s. The ash splints, visible at the center and edge of the lid, and on and around the bottom of the basket (as well as peeking through in a few spots through the