Pine Tree basket, snow covered -Sm (2.75") - Pam Outdusis Cunningham: Penobscot

Description: Pine Tree Basket, small - "snow covered" (left natural light ash color) by Pam Cunningham, Penobscot master basketmaker. This one is just so graceful and lovely! It has been at least 10 years since I have offered any of Pam's little tree baskets. They were customer favorites at that time and I am so pleased to have some to offer now. This small tree is about 2.75" high and 1.5" at bottom diameter. The branches are made of "porcupine" or "point" ash splint curls... and there are 96 of these tiny little curls on this tree... The branches (point curls) get smaller from bottom to top of tree. - Very difficult to do ..... Pam adds a red thin splint that spirals around the tree making a perfect garland. The bottom rim of this holiday basket tree is of plain tidal sweetgrass. Pam adds a signed splint to the inside. "Pam C - 2020" and here has added her maker's mark - a sweet fern unfurling into a turtle. Made of brown ash, the traditional material of Maine and Eastern Canadian basketmakers, this has plain tidal sweetgrass wrapping the rim of the basket bottom. Here the ash is mostly undyed... (snow) with red and yellow dyed splints for the decorations.There are more of Pam's beloved basket styles in this ebay store, Check to see if there are still different corn varieties, pinecones, blueberries, pineapples, strawberries, prayer baskets, urchin baskets, sewing baskets, and more...Second to last photo is of Pam dancing at the 2019 Penobscot Nation Community Day Festival. Last photo is a pic of Pam's great-grandmother, ssipsis, selling her baskets about 1920. To make some of her basket forms Pam uses some of her ssipsis's basket making tools - gauges, crooked knives and wooden molds. Be sure to view some of Pam's other baskets in this ebay store.

Price: 118 USD

Location: Sedgwick, Maine

End Time: 2023-12-12T14:49:43.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.5 USD