Keywords: Fancy baskets
Item 14422
Trophy Cup Fancy Basket, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Ash, sweetgrass
Item 104440
Josie Moriarty selling baskets, Indian Island, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Indian Island Media: Postcard
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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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13
"… house for picker’s families was usually not as fancy as the farmer’s house. It became know in local parlance as a “picker’s shack”."
