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Description
The baskets in Anne Howells collection were made by Native Americans living in the Northeast. The majority are from Wabanaki communities in Maine and eastern Canada, including Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. There are also a few baskets made by Abenaki people from Quebec and Native peoples from southern New England.
This basket is a style known as the "Abenaki Star." Although the Abenaki are not a federally recognized tribe in Maine, they have close historical and cultural ties to Maine's Native American communities. Many of the Abenaki who left the Kennebec River valley following the English raid on Norridgewock in 1724 settled in Odanak.
This basket was a gift to Anne Molloy Howells from Gaby Pelletier, a basket researcher and author of Abenaki Basketry (National Museums of Canada, 1982).
About This Item
- Title: Sewing Basket, ca. 1980
- Creator: Anne Capino Godin
- Creation Date: circa 1980
- Subject Date: circa 1980
- Location: Odanak, QC, Canada
- Media: Ash, sweetgrass, dye
- Dimensions: 15 cm x 25.5 cm
- Local Code: AM363
- Collection: Anne Molloy Howells Collection
- Object Type: Physical Object
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- Abenaki Indians
- Basketmaking
- Baskets
- Indians of North America--Quebec (Province)
- Indigenous peoples--Arts & crafts
- Sweetgrass baskets
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Abbe Museum26 Mount Desert Street, PO Box 286, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
(207) 288-3519
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