Handmade Baskets

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).Native Made.Height: 5.5" (14 cm)Diameter: 13.25" (33.5 cm) ...

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).This basket is a very nice piece. It has a darker coloring with a nice...

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).Native Made.Height: 4" (10 cm)Diameter: 7.5" (19 cm) ...

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).Native Made.Height: 5.5" (14 cm)Diameter: 13.25" (33.5 cm) ...

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).Native Made.

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Native Made.

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Native Made.

I purchased these awesome hand-made baskets at the Abenaki reservation in Odanak, Quebec in July 2005 from Marguerite Panadis, who is liquidating her store as a result of an illness that set in around 2000. The baskets are made using sweetgrass and ash splint weaved into beautiful patterns. Measurements below reflect the size of the actual basket, not the outer decorations (i.e., small handles, exterior curls or points).Native Made.Height: 22.25" (56.5 cm)Diameter: 13" (33 cm) ...

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

Each lyme grass basket is handmade by an Inuit artisan. Sometimes a different artisan produces the soapstone sculpture atop the basket. Each basket is unique. There are no export controls for this item.

These handmade porcupine quill boxes are one-of-a-kind. They are made by Ojibwa artisans from Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Native Americans use these to store jewelry and small household items. Beautiful and unique, they are made from birch bark bases covered with designs made of natural and dyed porcupine quills. Most have natural-colored backgrounds and are trimmed with sweet grass.Sizes will vary from about 1" in diameter to boxes that are 12" or wider.North American porcupines are...

This beautiful Ojibwa porcupine quill box is a one-of-a-kind box handmade by an Ojibwa artisan from Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Native Americans use these boxes to store jewelry and small household items. Beautiful and unique, the boxes are made from birch bark bases covered with designs made of natural and dyed porcupine quills and are trimmed with sweet grass.The number of quill boxes being produced these days is negligible. Many of the women who used to make these have either...