Description: SO glad to be able to offer this strawberry basket by Pam again - a long time customer favorite!A Little Strawberry Basket by Pam o Cunningham, master Penobscot basketmaker. Looks perfectly ripe and delicious! - This is Pam's "little strawberry basket" This little strawberry basket by Pam is of red dyed ash splints with dyed green leaves forming a strawberry hull atop the lid. This is covered with 72 small round "curlicue" curls. (The curls get smaller at the bottom of the basket) It is 1.25" to top of basket lid, 1.5" diameter at lid - rounded at center to 2" diameter and slightly tapered to bottom of basket which is .75" diameter. The small handle/stem of green dyed ash wrapped ash splint is .75" long making total height of this basket 2.5". Pam places 8 green dyed ash "leaves" as the hull on the lid of this strawberry. AND - she has added "curly vines" of very narrow ash that rise above and out from below the stem. On the inner rim of the lid Pam has signed "Pam outdusis" and added the date, "2024" - outdusis is Pam's Penobscot name, it means "little pathway"Made of brown ash, the traditional material of Maine and Eastern Canadian basketmakers, this has plain tidal sweetgrass wrapping the rim of the basket and lid. This uses red and green dyed ash.There are more of Pam's beloved basket styles in this ebay store, Check to see if there are still different corn varieties, blueberries, pumpkins, pinecones, prayer baskets, sewing baskets, spectacular sea urchin baskets.... Second to last photo is of Pam dancing the shawl dance 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 great-grandmother 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: 178.75 USD
Location: Sedgwick, Maine
End Time: 2025-01-03T23:43:50.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.5 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Original or Reproduction: original
Region or Culture: Northeast
Product Type: baskets
Artisan: Pam Cunningham
Tribal Affiliation: Penobscot
Exact Type: ash Splint Basket w/sweetgrass
Handmade: Yes
Modified Item: No
Culture: Native American: US
Native American Age: Current
