used for sprinkling cinnamon or sugar on muffins
Any breakfast-time would be just a little brighter with it on the table
as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775
I believe this one dates from the late 19th century
so this likely was first used
Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls used for sprinkling cinnamon orAs I've noted elsewhere, I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets, which, made of sweetgrass and ash splint, exemplify a really distinctive, and inventive, material language. Wabanaki refers to the 5 tribes living in Maine, Vermont and Eastern Canada (The Abenaki, Maliseet, MicMac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot). There are some unique attributes to the baskets of each tribe, but I am not entirely certain from which tribe this