Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf as owls are already rather

as owls are already rather miraculous and mystical sorts of creatures

stable and sturdy and beautiful

with next to no paint loss

and then carved boots and what might be taken for hands but he looks very much like a cowboy to me so I think better the pockets of a holster--looking empty

one of them on paper with an embossed mark on the paper from the state of Massachusetts

Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf as owls are already ratherI believe this is specifically Mi'kmaq, though I have found Passamaquoddy attributed baskets also showing "porcupine quill" curlicue splint weaving like this clearly Abenaki (Northeast Woodlands Native America, a confederacy comprised of five tribes) in any case, and clearly a beautiful example! Late 19th very early 20th century I believe, finely constructed and in near perfect condition, with a very rich warm dry patina to the splint, and sweetgrass