C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding panel painting with bark Brilliantly executed down to ever

Brilliantly executed down to ever detail

And then wonderful patches of very old darning scattered all over

so can be positioned however one likes it

I presume made for holding writing implements

I learned that the artist was Bill Anthony

C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding panel painting with bark Brilliantly executed down to everI come across a good number of Wabanaki (NE Woodlands Native American confederacy of tribes comprised of Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet Wolastoqey, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot) baskets as I run around New England and especially Maine, so it takes a special one at this point to stop me. As this one did. I do not believe I have EVER seen one with such fat sweetgrass braids, and woven in an almost entirely uninterrupted pattern but for the very small red