Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls or just hung as ornaments

or just hung as ornaments here and there

so this likely was first used

with that seam opened on a portion of the fourth side

is made from a mixture of the juice of the Thitsi tree and ash

Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls or just hung as ornamentsAs I've noted elsewhere, I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets, which, made of sweetgrass and ash splint, exemplify a really distinctive, and inventive, material language. Wabanaki refers to the 5 tribes living in Maine, Vermont and Eastern Canada (The Abenaki, Maliseet, MicMac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot). There are some unique attributes to the baskets of each tribe, but I am not entirely certain from which tribe this