C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding welded figure this folk art still bank

this folk art still bank seems a good one for collecting tithes--or perhaps saving up to purchase something sinful

but I saw this and swooned

(How does one do this

hoops dangling from her ears

and  clearly invested with significant care by a kid long ago

C. Early 20th Century Wabanaki Sweet Grass and Dyed Splint Sewing Basket with Unusually Dominant Braiding welded figure this folk art still bankI 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