MOTHER, Extra Folky Old Match Stick Tramp Art Box with Polka Dot Interior and Rich Patina dialing 4 3/8" tall and in

4 3/8" tall and in diameter and in very good

(Body is more stiff than soft

saturated color

and perhaps especially the back

I come across a good number of Wabanaki (NE Woodlands Native American confederacy of tribes comprised of Abenaki

MOTHER, Extra Folky Old Match Stick Tramp Art Box with Polka Dot Interior and Rich Patina dialing 4 3/8" tall and inThere are neat and crisp match stick boxes and then there are soulful old folk art boxes constructed of matchsticks, and this is very much the latter. I know match sticks creations were often made in prisons, though not exclusively this one, with cross at center and dedicated to MOTHER, has the feeling of prison art to me, but I don't know for sure. An old one and a very folky one whatever the case, with those flowers to either side of the the T in