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Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk
Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk
Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk
Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk
Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk
Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk

Beaver & Lodge: Oval porcupine quill/coil sweetgrass basket: Paul St John-Mohawk

$ 66

Availability: 87 in stock
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Category: Collectibles
  • materials: porcupine quill, birchbark, sweetgrass
  • Artisan: Paul St John
  • Modified Item: No
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Era: current
  • Tribal Affiliation: Mohawk
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Region or Culture: Northeast
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Exact Type: Birchbark/sweetgrass container w/quill design
  • Condition: New
  • Original or Reproduction: Original
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days

    Description

    The beaver on it's lodge of branches is made of porcupine quills and is on a sweetgrass basket by
    Paul St John, Mohawk craftsman.  The scene is on a birch bark medallion on the lid of a coiled tidal sweetgrass basket!
    Porcupine quills make up the design on the lid's center birch bark medallion and coiled tidal sweetgrass is used for the basket's sides on lid and bottom. It has been at least 5 years since I have been able to offer a beaver/beaver lodge by Paul - Believe it to be the first that has a natural white porcupine quill border around the outer edge of the birch bark medallion on the lid.
    This basket
    has birch bark at center of lid and used as the bottom -  then co
    iled tidal sweetgrass.  It is 5.5" long, 4.5" across and about 2.5" high.  The birch bark medallion at lid's center is 4" long and 3" wide.
    The beaver's body is of brown dyed quills, it's tail is of black dyed quills and it is atop it's green dyed quill lodge.
    Paul St. John now lives in Maine.  He is an enrolled Mohawk tribal member.   He grew up on the Mohawk lands in New York, his father's homeland.  His mother is Passamaquoddy/MicMac/Maliseet - When I saw his work I knew immediately I needed to offer his great baskets.  While quill work and coiled sweetgrass baskets are  historically Maine Indian traditional crafts, currently no one here but Paul St. John is actively practicing this craft.  -  Passamaquoddy basket makers, Jeremy Frey and Otter, both have used some quill work on their baskets...  but quill work on coiled sweetgrass baskets are Paul St John's specialty.
    Paul is shown in slideshow above with 2 of his works - one of them is a coiled sweetgrass basket with a side facing cardinal.   He not only does sweetgrass coil baskets and porcupine quill work on birch bark -- but also amazing dolls, Iroquois beadwork, MicMac beadwork,  great moccasins, knife sheaths, medicine bags and so much more!  He is truly a man of many (many many) talents!
    Watch this store for more of his pieces.  Can't wait to see what he is going to create next.