Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf otherwise great vintage condition

otherwise great vintage condition

with next to no paint loss

Watercolors like this are what live in my dreams

and the images

Signed at bottom Abiel A Livermore--who I've found: he was the nephew of Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892)

Lovely Old Abenaki "Porcupine Quill" Splint Basket with Flat Lid to hanf otherwise great vintage conditionI believe this is specifically Mi'kmaq, though I have found Passamaquoddy attributed baskets also showing "porcupine quill" curlicue splint weaving like this clearly Abenaki (Northeast Woodlands Native America, a confederacy comprised of five tribes) in any case, and clearly a beautiful example! Late 19th very early 20th century I believe, finely constructed and in near perfect condition, with a very rich warm dry patina to the splint, and sweetgrass