Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup wooden barrel shaped box 43” wide x 100” long

43” wide x 100” long

Maybe it's just me

There is some wear to the lacquer around the rims on the top and bottom of the box

Cylindrical boxes such as this

Punch and Judy has roots in 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte

Small Wabanaki Sweetgrass and Dyed Ash Splint Lidded Basket with Cup wooden barrel shaped box 43” wide x 100” longThis is a very sweet, finely woven little Native American Wabanaki (encompassing the Micmac, Penobscot, and Passamoquoddy Nations, from Maine and Eastern Canada) basket, handwoven from sweetgrass and ash splints. Based on similar examples I have seen, I believe it dates from the 1920s 1930s. The ash splints, visible at the center and edge of the lid, and on and around the bottom of the basket (as well as peeking through in a few spots through the