Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block Featured in the fifth edition

Featured in the fifth edition of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook by Glenn C

There are two existing loops for doing so

with a wonderfully expressive face

in Grantville

but I have not been able to find it in the The New Yorker's archive in order to date it--but surely what makes for demographic perfection has become more complex and conflicted since it was published

Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block Featured in the fifth editionThis is a beautiful large painted swabbed antique ash splint rectangular work basket, 19th century New England Maine Native American I believe, with wonderfully irregular notched bentwood handles. While the naturally dyed color has certainly faded over time, it still shows quite nicely on the horizontal splints; with two thin bands of yellow, then two red, then two brown, then one wide yellow, and two thin red at the very bottom. The basket is sturdy