Pam Cunningham's Butter & Sugar corn baskets look "sweet enough to eat".  This little butter and sugar corn basket is by Pam Cunningham, master Penobscot basketmaker. Pam makes at least 5 different varieties. - Her butter and sugar corn resembles a customer favorite at local farmer's markets and farm stands...  It has yellow and natural color ash curlicue kernels on the basket "ear"-  

 There are pulled back natural ash color "husks" atop the basket lid. In this basket Pam adds a bit of color into the husk, inserting some narrow ash splints of yellow at the very top along with the natural splints.  

Each of Pam's corn baskets differ in the color and placement of the individual kernel/curls. This ear of corn/basket bottom is covered with 96 small round "curlicue" curls. (The curls get smaller at the bottom of the basket) The ear of corn is 2.5" to it's rim, the lid/husk is 4.5" long - making total length 7". The middle of the "ear" is 1 1/4" in diameter, the curls add a bit to it's girth. 1.25" diameter at lid - slightly tapered to bottom of basket which is .75" diameter. On the inner rim of the husks (the part that fits into the basket/ear bottom Pam has signed "Pam C" , added the date (2023)  and put her maker's mark, a sweet fern transforming into a turtle.  Pam is of the Penobscot turtle clan.   Be sure to view all photos in the slideshow above to see the various colors and placement of "kernels".

This small size of "basketry corn" is about the size of some varieties grown by some Native American tribes for popping corn and for grinding into cornmeal. 

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 - and the braid of sweetgrass tying the ends of the husk.