Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion men fishing and found it way too

and found it way too good not to bring home

as one's sense of humans does

and a few other areas of wear (lower right

good condition with just a bit of minor scratching visible on the graphic and general light wear It was used

Hopefulness incarnate if I ever did see it

Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion men fishing and found it way tooI have had just a couple of antique Mi'kmaq basketry pieces executed in this manner both of those with the basketry covering wooden barrels, and those, like this, completely amazing me for the fineness of the work. This is just over six inches wide, meaning that those tiny twists of the ash splint sometimes called "porcupine curls" are very very tiny indeed. And here with some of the splints dyed red and green, bringing the patterns of the weaving