Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE carved wooden object down the sides

down the sides

It features a lid that opens to reveal storage on the top half

and charcoal

This is a great large Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a clear glass vase

but I am certain it included the work of Jacquer Poirer (1928–2002) whose trompe l'oeil painting is reproduced on the poster

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE carved wooden object down the sidesOh how I love this basket, and the more I look at it, the more I love it. Definitely it is Wabanaki (Northeast Native American, encompassing MicMac, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes) and I believe it is MicMac specifically, native to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gasp Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine. It is just gorgeously constructed, with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and