217 Golden Cedar Basket

Description

This small basket has a base and spokes of Eastern Red Cedar and Black Walnut inner bark, and is woven with the split inner bark of Cedar and the outer bark of Willow. The central dark band is the outer bark of a young branch of Walnut. The shiny greenish twined rows are of Rattlesnake Master leaves, a tall-grass prairie plant, once commonly found in Missouri. Starting on the outside, the seed beads are Canna, Job’s Tears, Cassia, Kentucky Coffee Tree, with a rain forest Sibucau seed in the center. All materials for this basket were harvested, prepared, and created entirely by hand, from the standing trees and plants to the finished basket.