Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion slab plate with woman to my eye just about

to my eye just about the best package design ever

Total love at first sight with this antique watercolor--what a face (those eyebrows

I'd guess earlyish 20th c

with the white beading evincing an atomic diagram from which "spray work" sprigs bloom forth

Impossibly Fine, Beautiful Condition Antique Mi'kmaq Curlicue Basketry Pin Cushion slab plate with woman to my eye just aboutI 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