Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf stable and sturdy and beautiful

stable and sturdy and beautiful

as owls are already rather miraculous and mystical sorts of creatures

and just beautiful

Signed at bottom Abiel A Livermore--who I've found: he was the nephew of Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892)

but pretty great still even if you've mastered your multiplication tables

Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf stable and sturdy and beautifulI believe this is specifically Mi'kmaq, though I have found Passamaquoddy attributed baskets also showing "porcupine quill" curlicue splint weaving like this clearly Abenaki (Northeast Woodlands Native America, a confederacy comprised of five tribes) in any case, and clearly a beautiful example! Late 19th very early 20th century I believe, finely constructed and in near perfect condition, with a very rich warm dry patina to the splint, and sweetgrass