Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Baskets & Boxes she seems posed and self-possesed

she seems posed and self-possesed

and reminds me a bit of the cats of Laurel Burch

decorated with gold and silver flowers and flourishes

Williams' work has been exhibited in museums across the United States and Canada

and be picked up and turned around as the mood strikes

Striking Wabanaki MicMac Lidded Splint and Sweetgrass Porcupine Curl Basket-reserved for JE Baskets & Boxes she seems posed and self-possesedOh how I love this basket, and the more I look at it, the more I love it. Definitely it is Wabanaki (Northeast Native American, encompassing MicMac, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes) and I believe it is MicMac specifically, native to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gasp Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine. It is just gorgeously constructed, with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and