Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki floral summer dress combined with the uniform precision

combined with the uniform precision of mid-century machine work

This is a fabulous coat by a Beverly Hills based designer - strikingly unique

For some reason

This dress has been well cared for over the years

Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki floral summer dress combined with the uniform precisionThis is a wonderful vintage 1930s Native American lidded basket made of dyed curled and straight ash splint with braided sweetgrass and Hong Kong cord roping. Due to the presence of Hong Kong cord on the basket, it dates to the late 1920s through the 1930s. Hong Kong cord was adopted as a labour saving substitute for hand twirled sweetgrass in structural roping, but its use was discontinued with the start of WWII (1940). Still, there is some