Thanks Tracey!
Yup Pat, they're all brown ash and sweetgrass. I'm sweating bullets about the emerald ash borer since it's already tough to find brown ash as it is. We're paying $3 per foot for finished, poor quality splint.
Bone Pile; Vermont born and raised. I like it here.
PD; Thanks!
Zuma; There are some whites in the adirondacks that use white oak, but Abenaki only use black ash. It's sacred as a part of the creation myth and is much more pliable and durable than split oak. It ain't an Abenaki basket if it's got anything that's not black ash
