Vintage 1930s Native American Lidded Basket Ash & Sweetgrass Passamaquoddy Penobscot Wabanaki floral summer dress The sleeves have three button

The sleeves have three button cuffs and the jacket has a double vent back

This is a wonderful sleeveless party / prom crinoline dress that dates to the 1950s

For some reason

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 The sleeves have three buttonThis 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