Sweet Little Antique Penobscot Splint Ash and Sweetgrass Basket, Low and Round shell casing 7 7/8" t x 3

7 7/8" t x 3 1/2" w x 1/2" d and in great condition

carved of walnut I believe

Certainly it could still be used as a notebook

I come across a good number of Wabanaki (a confederacy of Eastern Algonquian nations encompassing the Abenaki

Sweet Little Antique Penobscot Splint Ash and Sweetgrass Basket, Low and Round shell casing 7 7/8" t x 3Living 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