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CHICKADEE: 4
CHICKADEE: 4
CHICKADEE: 4
CHICKADEE: 4
CHICKADEE: 4
CHICKADEE: 4

CHICKADEE: 4" round coil sweetgrass basket w/porcupine quill: P St John-Mohawk

$ 48.84

Availability: 18 in stock
  • Region or Culture: Northeast
  • Culture: Native American: US
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Era: current
  • Original or Reproduction: Original
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Exact Type: Birchbark/sweetgrass container w/quill design
  • Modified Item: No
  • Condition: New
  • Tribal Affiliation: Mohawk
  • Artisan: Paul St John, Mohawk
  • Category: Collectibles
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • materials: porcupine quill, birchbark, sweetgrass

    Description

    On this smaller round basket a  cheery chickadee of porcupine quills perches on a pine branch on a birch bark medallion on an oval coiled sweetgrass basket by Paul St John, Mohawk craftsman.  The chickadee of dyed black quills and natural white quills sits on a green dyed quill pine branch.  It is on a birchbark medallion with an inner border of natural white quills with darker ends left on.
    This round basket
    has birch bark at center of lid and used as the bottom -  then co
    iled tidal sweetgrass.  It is  4" in diameter and 2.5" high.  The birch bark medallion at center top is 2.75" in diameter.  The birch bark has at it's outer edge a border of natural porcupine quill.
    The chickadee is Maine's state bird - it's cheery call can be heard throughout the Maine woods.  In deepest coldest winter - the sight of a chickadee, feathers all puffed out cheers me up every time!
    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.