Jar basket, ca. 1960
Item 23455 info
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
This type of basket was woven over a jar of B & M Baked Beans and continues to be a popular form of baskets for Maine Indian basketmakers.
By the nineteenth century, when Maine Indians were no longer able to survive by hunting and fishing and other traditional methods, many began making baskets for the tourist trade.
To supplement their incomes and provide necessary cash to purchase manufactured goods, Maine Indians created and sold novelty goods -- baskets, birchbark work and carvings.
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