Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block especially the pregnant Mrs

especially the pregnant Mrs

which I have learned is called “yun-de

walnut I'd guess

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

Handmade in Portugal

Large Antique Painted Ash Splint Work Basket with Notched Bentwood Handles 1930s wood block especially the pregnant MrsThis 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