Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup native american perhaps made to store crickets

perhaps made to store crickets

The wood shows some wear and light cracking

While the weaving itself is in terrific shape

with a bit of green as well

Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup native american perhaps made to store cricketsThis 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