A Little Strawberry Basket by Pam o Cunningham, master Penobscot basketmaker. Looks perfectly ripe and delicious!  -  This is Pam's  "little strawberry basket"   --Recently she made one even smaller - a  "tiny strawberry basket"   This is larger & has even more beautiful curlicue curls -and still amazingly small and perfect.

This little strawberry basket by Pam is of red dyed ash splints with dyed green leaves forming a strawberry hull atop the lid. This is covered with 80 small round "curlicue" curls. (The curls get smaller at the bottom of the basket) It is 1.75" to top of basket lid, 1.5" diameter at lid - rounded at center to 2" diameter and slightly tapered to bottom of basket which is .75" diameter. The small handle/stem of green dyed ash wrapped ash splint is .75" long making total height of this basket 2.5". Pam places 8 green dyed ash "leaves" as the hull on the lid of this strawberry. AND - she has added  "curly vines" of very narrow ash that rise above and out from below the stem.  On the inner rim of the lid Pam has signed "Pam C" and added the date,

Made of brown ash, the traditional material of Maine and Eastern Canadian basketmakers, this has plain tidal sweetgrass wrapping the rim of the basket and lid. This uses red and green dyed ash.

There are more of Pam's beloved basket styles in this ebay store,  Check to see if there are still  different corn varieties,  more pinecones, blueberries, pumpkins, prayer baskets, sewing baskets, spectacular sea urchin baskets....