Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE carved wooden object then a drawer with brass

then a drawer with brass pull on the lower half

This is a great large Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a clear glass vase

and charcoal

and graphic artist

to the cobalt blue sea animated with white gulls and what look like lily pads everywhere

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE carved wooden object then a drawer with brassOh 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