Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup leather covered box contained in a cardboard canister

contained in a cardboard canister

serviceable condition

Based on the mark

such that I would likely just find a good place to display it--and turn it around occasionally to get a different view

3 1/2" across at handle

Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup leather covered box contained in a cardboard canisterThis 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