Wabanaki Ash Splint and Woven Sweetgrass Cup Basket streamlined with the letter and numbers

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle or jar type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

I love it just an object

And then her blushing face seems straight out of a John Currin painting

with the idea that the dolls would absorb and carry these worries away

feeds a sense of holiness

Wabanaki Ash Splint and Woven Sweetgrass Cup Basket streamlined with the letter and numbersThis sweet small Wabanaki (likely Penobscot) Northeast Coast Native American basket holds a glass cup, which I think is most useful for the fact that it has helped it hold its shape very well. Made of ash splint and woven sweetgrass, this one has a fair amount of age and a nice patina. Handy for holding some little things or just to add to the basket collection. A tiny bit of breakage to the red dyed splints at the very center of the lid (I have yet