Vintage 1930s Native American Wastepaper Basket Wabanaki 11” white many hours of work to

many hours of work to complete a needlework of this intricacy

The copyright symbol before Boucher dates the set to post-1955

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

wear to the underside

Vintage 1930s Native American Wastepaper Basket Wabanaki 11” white many hours of work toThis 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