Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
As Native and non-Native cultures interacted, Wabanaki artists created new and exciting designs to meet the tourist market, including glove boxes, sewing accessories, powder dispensers, and wall pockets—sometimes in fanciful shapes like acorns and strawberries, such as this strawberry basket by an unrecorded artist, likely Penobscot.
Until around 1990, artists didn't sign their baskets, and the collectors usually didn’t record the names of the artists. Historically, tourists didn’t view the baskets as artwork, but rather as a memento of a nostalgic encounter with another culture, to recall trips to places like Bar Harbor or Indian Island, or as décor and useful objects in the large summer “cottages” on the coast.
About This Item
- Title: Wabanaki strawberry basket, 1996
- Creation Date: circa 1996
- Subject Date: circa 1996
- Location: Old Town, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: ash, sweet grass, dye
- Dimensions: 6.25 cm x 3.5 cm
- Local Code: 1997.46.2
- Object Type: Physical Object
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