Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki floral summer dress As you may note in

As you may note in the photos

does have wear and the leather pocket trim also has some slight wear

This is a fabulous coat by a Beverly Hills based designer - strikingly unique

combined with the uniform precision of mid-century machine work

although some would still remain - a tailor could re-patch this if it bothered you

Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki floral summer dress As you may note inThis is a wonderful vintage 1930s Native American lidded basket made of dyed curled and straight ash splint with braided sweetgrass and Hong Kong cord roping. Due to the presence of Hong Kong cord on the basket, it dates to the late 1920s through the 1930s. Hong Kong cord was adopted as a labour saving substitute for hand twirled sweetgrass in structural roping, but its use was discontinued with the start of WWII (1940). Still, there is some