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Moving Image		Caron Shay & Briana Randall: Passing on the Tradition UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:08:46 Caron Shay, Penobscot Basketmaker. Caron is passing on the tradition to her granddaughter Briana. Caron’s segment focuses on traditional methods of teaching basektmaking, by watching and doing. Caron talks about her own experiences learning the tradition from her mother and father and she “fixes” Briana’s work and shows her how to do various steps in the weaving process in this segment. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Penobscot Tribe Basket making Baskets – Maine Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		Clara Keezer UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:06:01 Clara Keezer is a Passamaquoddy Basketmaker. Clara is a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship award winner. Her segment focuses on how her basket styles have evolved from utilitarian forms to art. She also talks about the communal nature of basketmaking in her community of Pleasant Point. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Passamaquoddy Tribe Basket making Baskets – Maine Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		David Moses Bridges: Passamaquoddy Birchbark Artist UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:54 Passamaquoddy Birchbark David Moses Bridges is an award-winning artist, who has received national attention for his work, which ranges from full-size birchbark canoes to traditional containers. The footage shows him in his workshop making containers and showing how the raw materials are prepared, stitched together and etched. A later film shot focuses on harvesting spruce root, which is used to sew the bark. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Passamaquoddy Tribe Birch bark Basket making Baskets – Maine Spruce baskets Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		Dianne Apt: Sweet Grass Braiding UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:37 Dianne is one of the only sweetgrass braiders, who braids hundreds of yards of sweetgrass, which fancy basketmakers from all four tribes incorporate in their baskets. Dianne shows how sweetgrass is picked, one strand at a time, and then how it is braided into a three strand braid, six pieces of grass at a time. She talks about the tradition within her family and how access to sweetgrass is becoming increasingly limited. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Passamaquoddy Tribe Basket making Baskets -- Maine Indian baskets -- North America Sweetgrass baskets Braid

Moving Image		Eldon Hanning: Micmac Ash Harvest UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:06:47 Eldon Hanning, who belongs to the Micmac tribe, demonstrates the harvest of ash wood, the wood most commonly used for basketmaking. This segment on brown ash harvesting was filmed in the Aroostook County woods and explores threats to the tree and loss of access to wood as property ownership changes. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Micmac Tribe Basket making Ash (Plants) -- Maine Logging Indian baskets -- North America Baskets -- Maine

Moving Image		Eldon Hanning: Micmac Ash Pounding UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:06:02 Eldon Hanning, who belongs to the Micmac tribe, demonstrates the process of pounding of ash wood, which separates the wood into usable strips for basket weaving. This segment was filmed in his workshop in Limestone and focuses on Micmac pounding techniques to produce splints. The workshop segment was filmed in January, when it was more than 20º below zero and the wood had to be thawed over the wood stove before it could be pounded. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Micmac Tribe Basket making Baskets -- Maine Indian baskets -- North America Ash (Plants)

Moving Image		Fred Tomah: Maliseet Basketmaker UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:54 Fred is a Maliseet artist. He has developed a distinctive basketmaking style. He learned from elders to make a wide variety of utilitarian basket forms, which he has adapted into art. This segment shows the evolution of his distinctive style and how he creates new forms. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Maliseet Tribe Basket making Baskets – Maine Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		Jeremy Frey & Ganessa Bryant: Carriers of Culture UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:33 Passamaquoddy Basketmaker Jeremy Frey and Penobscot basketmaker Ganessa Bryant represent a new generation of basketmakers who are carriers of culture. Their work draws on traditional techniques, but incorporates innovations and materials from other regions of the country. They talk about their concerns for the tradition, and threats to access to raw materials and the emerald ash borer. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Penobscot Tribe Passamaquoddy Tribe Basket making Baskets – Maine Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		Mary Sanipass: Micmac Mater Basketmaker UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:05:47 Mary Sanipass, Micmac Basketmaker. Mary and her husband Donald, who passed on during the project, are Micmac elders who continue to make forms that have been made in their families for generations. Mary focuses on a basket specific to Aroostook County, the potato basket. She talks about her concerns of the tradition and her hopes for her family carrying on the tradition. Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki Tribe Micmac Tribe Basket making Baskets – Maine Indian baskets -- North America

Moving Image		Molly Neptune Parker: Passamaquoddy Master Basketmaker UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:06:30 Molly is the 2007 Maine Arts Commission Traditional Artist Fellowship award winner, who talks about learning the tradition from her mother and then passing the tradition on to her children and grandchildren. She demonstrates how brown ash is prepared (splitting and gauging) for making fancy baskets and talks about the relationship of this tradition to her community and to the perpetuation of Passamaquoddy culture. Her grandson George is also featured in this segment. Find Similar Resources	Passamaquoddy Tribe Wabanaki Tribe Native Americans Basket making Baskets -- Maine Indian baskets -- North America

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