Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor who draws inspiration from sources

who draws inspiration from sources including Native American craft

4 1/8" tall

I vividly remember visiting Skansen—an open-air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrialization—on a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago

is just stunning

The more time I spend with this hand carved granite sculpture

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor who draws inspiration from sourcesThis American antique buttocks basket, woven of oak splint I believe, and dating to the late 19th century or so, has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint. I'd like to think this basket has had a long, productive life, used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim, and what appears to be some burn damage to