Sweet Little Antique Penobscot Splint Ash and Sweetgrass Basket, Low and Round antique miniature show if features 18 pages of

if features 18 pages of simple sewing exercises and fabric samples

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

followed by a navy wool swatch from an underskirt that was used to "lengthen" the previous dress

I love how formally akin these feels to antique reliquaries

this one made not as a snuff box but perhaps as a pin cushion

Sweet Little Antique Penobscot Splint Ash and Sweetgrass Basket, Low and Round antique miniature show if features 18 pages ofLiving in New England and spending a lot of time up in Maine, I come across a lot of Wabanaki baskets (Wabanaki emcompassing the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot.) I always admire them, but most of the time feel okay to leave them for someone else. I especially like the small, old ones though, and this one, displayed amid maybe 10 other larger and fancier ones, just struck me as if carrying an especially deep energy, which