MicMac Porcupine Weave Fancy Lidded Basket interlocking parts dramatic triangular tail fins

dramatic triangular tail fins

which may once have read "CHINA" backwards (now it reads "HINA")

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

and I believe that these are Haitian teak

as well as amid a collection of lacquerware or Asiatica

MicMac Porcupine Weave Fancy Lidded Basket interlocking parts dramatic triangular tail finsThis is a newer, un dyed splint and grass presumed MicMac basket with "porcupine" weave around the perimeter of the lid and again near the bottom of the base. Bright and clean (there's a bit of dust captured in a couple of the photos that has since been brushed off!) with a great silhoutte, it's a nice one just to set on a shelf, or to fill with a couple of little treasures and give as a gift basket! Excellent overall condition. The tail end of the