Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Royal Copenhagen Baca series as a means of responding

as a means of responding to the changed conditions of its mid-20th century context

I purchased it at the estate sale of a family of artists who had many wonderful things

Woven in a classic kilim style

flat metal pin and are fairly easily found) to open

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Royal Copenhagen Baca series as a means of respondingOh how I love this basket, and the more I look at it, the more I love it. Definitely it is Wabanaki (Northeast Native American, encompassing MicMac, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes) and I believe it is MicMac specifically, native to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gasp Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine. It is just gorgeously constructed, with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and