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Description
Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy) specializes in ash and sweetgrass basket artwork.
Rottweiler puts a spin on the typical traditional Wabanaki urchin design, with Frey adding signature style elements including fine weaving of thread-like ash weavers—some as small as one thirty-second of an inch, braided ash woven into the baskets, and ring finials on the basket lid, a technique he perfected with ash after learning the Indigenous Hawaiian technique of weaving with lauhala.
Frey named this basket Rottweiler, referencing the black and brown coloring of the dog breed.
About This Item
- Title: "Rottweiler," by Jeremy Frey, Old Town, 2007
- Creator: Jeremy Frey
- Creation Date: 2007
- Subject Date: 2007
- Location: Old Town, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Ash, sweetgrass, dye
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 20.3 cm
- Local Code: 2024.038.001 a,b
- Object Type: Physical Object
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