Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki 70s skirt top set produced for export to Western

produced for export to Western markets

Length: 31

similar to Tootal

Waist: 28"

Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki 70s skirt top set produced for export to WesternThis is a wonderful vintage 1930s Native American lidded basket made of dyed curled and straight ash splint with braided sweetgrass and Hong Kong cord roping. Due to the presence of Hong Kong cord on the basket, it dates to the late 1920s through the 1930s. Hong Kong cord was adopted as a labour saving substitute for hand twirled sweetgrass in structural roping, but its use was discontinued with the start of WWII (1940). Still, there is some