Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor 4 1/8" tall

4 1/8" tall

and carved from one piece of wood

Okakura Kabuza discusses Zen and Taosim

who draws inspiration from sources including Native American craft

I'd guess)

Brown Painted Antique Splint Buttocks Basket elegant home decor 4 1/8" tallThis 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