C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse " And while this one

" And while this one doesn't compete with some of the much more elaborate early examples (including one held in the collection of the V&A) I think it is pretty fabulous--and the slabs of meat

and thought to list them separately because maybe for some people one bright orange truck is enough

The intense blue green ground of this old oil on canvas painting of pink roses is what makes it for me

and though very different things

which gives thanks to San Antonio Abad (Anthony the Great) for healing the paralyzed legs of the son of Lucrezia Queretaro

C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse " And while this oneI come across a good number of Wabanaki (a confederacy of Eastern Algonquian nations encompassing the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot) baskets especially up in Maine and pass by most of them. This, though, is an especially charming old Mi'kmaq basket, and pretty unusual for sitting on three little woven feet. It is constructed of various sizes of both dyed and natural ash splint and sweet grass, twisted to resemble rope