C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse but now making him feel

but now making him feel all the more like Corduroy from this children's book

the checkerboard is oriented horizontally

which gives thanks to San Antonio Abad (Anthony the Great) for healing the paralyzed legs of the son of Lucrezia Queretaro

and then this great fence around them and two great brown ducks marching along below

C. 1920s Mi'kmaq Sweet Grass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicues and Three Feet! purse but now making him feelI come across a good number of Wabanaki (a confederacy of Eastern Algonquian nations encompassing the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot) baskets especially up in Maine and pass by most of them. This, though, is an especially charming old Mi'kmaq basket, and pretty unusual for sitting on three little woven feet. It is constructed of various sizes of both dyed and natural ash splint and sweet grass, twisted to resemble rope