Fancy Penobscot Sweetgrass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicue Braiding antique box with gold paint kit Poirer's work often included riddles

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

2" across at base and 2 1/2" across at lip

bringing joy wherever it is situated

" made in Czechoslovakia probably 1930s

While the weaving is unsigned

Fancy Penobscot Sweetgrass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicue Braiding antique box with gold paint kit Poirer's work often included riddlesI am completely enchanted by this basket! Woven of sweetgrass and dyed ash splint, I am pretty certain it is Penobscot (Maine Native), likely c. 1920's 40's, and is definitely one of the finest I have seen. The lid features a striking interplay of thin splint strips and braided sweetgrass woven over thicker orange splints, but it is the sides that really make this basket, with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops