C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse the checkerboard is oriented horizontally

the checkerboard is oriented horizontally

painterly blue and green glazing on its exterior

I just can't resist these early theorem watercolors

which gives thanks to San Antonio Abad (Anthony the Great) for healing the paralyzed legs of the son of Lucrezia Queretaro

The intense blue green ground of this old oil on canvas painting of pink roses is what makes it for me

C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse the checkerboard is oriented horizontallyI come across a good number of Wabanaki (a confederacy of Eastern Algonquian nations encompassing the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot) baskets especially up in Maine and pass by most of them. This, though, is an especially charming old Mi'kmaq basket, and pretty unusual for sitting on three little woven feet. It is constructed of various sizes of both dyed and natural ash splint and sweet grass, twisted to resemble rope