Split Ash and sweet grass  -dated on bottom 1918

Over 100 years old appears true to age

which appears true to hole lid bottom

found and bought as a set and appears the same weaver

First Nation Maine Eastern Canada region ?

No papers no makers mark

found online sold 5 years ago same exact basket with this description as follows.......

 Round lidded basket with the hole on top - whole secured by a coiled ash splint wrapped rim. It would have been used for crochet or tatting - yarn/thread is inside the basket with end coming thru the hole. 

This is a straight sided round basket, a drum basket form, with an overhanging lid It is 3.75" in diameter, 2.25" high and has a 1.75" diameter wrapped rim with a .75" hole 
Woven on a foundation of brown ash, traditional basketry material of Maine and Eastern Canadian Indian basketmakers, this has plain tidal sweetgrass used for the weavers. In general the Maliseet basketmakers were only ones in the 4 Maine Indian tribal groups that wove with plain tidal sweetgrass. The MicMac generally did not use sweetgrass as weavers and the ,Passamaquoddy and Penobscot would use braided tidal sweetgrass for weavers when they wove with sweetgrass. This has an inscription on bottom ... in pencil -

These could be Vanity items or sewing items-Yarn basket with hole --or a hair receiver -

larger basket measures 6 inches wide and stands 3 1/2" tall with lid with beautiful woven handle 

Both nice for age --some fading of the red

sold as shown-- sold as-is --please review pictures and satisfy self

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