Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion slab plate with woman I would use it for

I would use it for plenty of other things as well -- perhaps for an arranged nicoise salad

The letters--which appear to me most likely hand-colored paper litho carefully cut and decoupaged on one by

to my eye just about the best package design ever

I'd guess earlyish 20th c

A big and beautiful old set of geometric solid blocks--or more likely a number of partial sets mixed together over time

Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion slab plate with woman I would use it forI have had just a couple of antique Mi'kmaq basketry pieces executed in this manner both of those with the basketry covering wooden barrels, and those, like this, completely amazing me for the fineness of the work. This is just over six inches wide, meaning that those tiny twists of the ash splint sometimes called "porcupine curls" are very very tiny indeed. And here with some of the splints dyed red and green, bringing the patterns of the weaving