Keywords: Basket weaving
Item 10055
Penobscot Band Basket, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1860 Media: Black ash
Item 135729
"wapi-kuhkukhahs” or Snowy Owl basket, Orono, 2022
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2022 Location: Orono Media: Black ash, leather, glass bead, metal
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Exhibit
Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art
Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads and small hamlets, these hardscrabble settlers busied…"
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Story
Making the wapi-kuhkukhahs / Snowy Owl basket
by Gabriel Frey and Gal Frey
A story of a mother and son artistic collaboration.
Story
Masters and apprentices
by Theresa Secord
Wabanaki basket makers learn to weave by apprenticing with master artists.
