Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket shipibo Another lovely wooden box

Another lovely wooden box

along with a few others in a more distressed state

which is wonderfully worn

Just a darling little object to have around

I found these fabulous homemade hummingbird lures at an antique shop in Maine

Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket shipibo Another lovely wooden boxAs I've noted elsewhere, I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets, which, made of sweetgrass and ash splint, exemplify a really distinctive, and inventive, material language. Wabanaki refers to the 5 tribes living in Maine, Vermont and Eastern Canada (The Abenaki, Maliseet, MicMac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot). There are some unique attributes to the baskets of each tribe, but I am not entirely certain from which tribe this