Tatting (lace making) or crochet basket - Mohawk c/1920-1940's - PERFECT

Description

This is an Iroquois tatting or crochet basket with the hole in the lid for yarn/thread to come through, large hoop handle to place over wrist or over the back post of ladderback chair while working. It is made on an ash wood splint foundation dyed rose color with loosely braided sweetgrass weavers and sweetgrass over the lid and bottom rims which are bound with a thin ash splint wrapped around all rims to secure sweetgrass.  The ash splint around top hole is wound around and around to form a wide protective circle to insure the moving thread won't wear around hole's edge.
Iroquois and Wabanaki basketmakers made tatting or crochet baskets as well as knitting baskets with similar holes in the lids - but longer cylindrical shape (to hold larger balls of yarn).  This one has been kept in perfect condition - and out of the light as the color is not faded.
It is 3" high and 3" in diameter. The hoop handle is 3.75" in diameter and about 1/4" wide.