Gorgeous Late 19th/Early 20th Century Sweet Grass and Splint Penobscot/Passamaquoddy Sewing Basket Oregon wood grenade Then fraternal compass and square

Then fraternal compass and square inscribed in a shield on the left side

Easily mounted to a wall via holes at either end of the iron plate

Coil built earthenware with polychrome

and I guess it a product of the thickness of the glass that it is more the surface than the form that was transfigured--though the form was too

with just very minor loss in a few spots

Gorgeous Late 19th/Early 20th Century Sweet Grass and Splint Penobscot/Passamaquoddy Sewing Basket Oregon wood grenade Then fraternal compass and squareA total beauty of an antique Wabanaki basket, specifically Penobscot or Passamaquoddy, very finely woven of sweetgrass (a sacred material) and splint (poplar I believe), with braided and twisted sweet grass handle across the lid. I come across a good number of Wabanaki baskets, and have bought and sold a fair number, but this to my eye is as beautiful as they come, and an early one, late 19th very early 20th century I believe. These were made for the