Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Baskets & Boxes they’d be pretty great in

they’d be pretty great in a classroom or kid’s room

The chest has seen some use (as pictured in detail

decorated with gold and silver flowers and flourishes

along the seam

I have seen very similar pieces attributed to the Fratelli Toso Company in Venice and dated to the 1950s

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Baskets & Boxes they’d be pretty great inOh 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