Vintage 1930s Native American Wastepaper Basket Wabanaki 11” white wear to the underside

wear to the underside

a couple of tiny dings and an unusual solder-like bump (see last close-up photo)

Has a manufacturing date of 02/07/11 (2011) on it and the client’s name

The dress has above the wrist length puff sleeves and a scoop neck

The piece measures 7 1/2 wide by about 4 1/2 deep with a height of 3 3/8 to the top of the cover

Vintage 1930s Native American Wastepaper Basket Wabanaki 11” white wear to the undersideThis is a large Native American wastepaper basket made of ash splint and trimmed with Hong Kong cord roping at the rim and handles. The use of Hong Kong cord dates this basket to the 1930s, the only decade when this type of material was used as a substitute for hand twirled sweetgrass, which was more labour intensive to produce. This Native American wastepaper basket is woven in a checkerboard pattern of dyed ash splints in orange, green, golden