Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE cylinder Titled “A Pregnant Woman

Titled “A Pregnant Woman

features a scene of scholars in a traditional Chinese scholar's garden

I’ve learned that in the late 19th and early 20th century women especially were encouraged to learn pyrography

Each measures 2

With a little googling one can photos of a rainbow array of these

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE cylinder Titled “A Pregnant WomanOh 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