C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding welded figure And though the gentleman forever

And though the gentleman forever enclosed within it certainly looks poised to be the master of his domain

I really love the exuberant gestures of the figures with their waving arms

and  clearly invested with significant care by a kid long ago

(How does one do this

which unlike the others is confusing to me

C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding welded figure And though the gentleman foreverI 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