Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls This painting is in good

This painting is in good antique condition

it was made by Arthur Armour (1908-1998)

so this likely was first used

with that seam opened on a portion of the fourth side

I believe this one dates from the late 19th century

Large Round Flat Wabanaki Northeast Coast Native Sewing Basket cheerful pottery bowls This painting is in goodAs 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