Further Reading & Resources

The curator of this online exhibition is indebted to resources produced by members of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance as well as David Shultz's extensive research and interviews in Baskets of Time: Profiles of Maine Indian Basketmakers (2017).

Basket Trees - Saving a Tradition. Portland: Maine Public Broadcasting Network, 2012. https://www.pbs.org/video/sustainable-maine-sustainable-maine-basket-trees-saving-tradition/.

Butler, Joyce. Spirits in the Wood. Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1997.

Caron Shay & Briana Randall. Hudson Museum/Maine Basketmakers’ Alliance. Orono: The University of Maine, 2014. https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/caron-shay-briana-randall/.

Cassano, Amanda, Sunshine Eaton, and Shandiin Largo. “Innovation and Resilience: Across Three Generations of Wabanaki Basket-Making.” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2022. https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/digital/innovation-resilience/index.html.

Francis, David A., and Karen Schaumann. Sunrise at Sipayik: A Passamaquoddy Tribal and Personal Oral History. Northeast Folklore, volume XLVII. Orono: Maine Folklife Center, 2016.

Greenlaw, Suzanne, Gabriel Frey, and Nancy Baker. The First Blade of Sweetgrass: A First Nations Story. Thomaston: Tilbury House Publishers, 2021.

Kelleher, Kate. “Weaving Stories.” Maine The Magazine, September 2020. https://www.themainemag.com/weaving-stories/.

MacDougall, Pauleena. The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People. Revisiting New England. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2004.

Maine Historical Society. “Paula Thorne Acorn Basket, Indian Island, ca. 1999.” Maine Memory Network. Accessed May 4, 2023. https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/108747.

Maine Memory Network. “Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art.” Accessed May 4, 2023. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2976/page/4665/display.

McBride, Bunny. Our Lives in Our Hands: Micmac Indian Basketmakers. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1990.

McBride, Bunny, and Harald E. L. Prins. Indians in Eden: Wabanakis & Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s. Camden: DownEast Books, 2009.

Mundell, Kathleen, ed. North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts. Gardiner: Tilbury House Publishers, 2008.

National Endowment for the Arts. “Clara Neptune Keezer.” Accessed May 4, 2023. https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/clara-neptune-keezer.

Neptune, Jennifer. Spirit of the Basket Tree: Wabanaki Splint Baskets from Maine. Hanover: Dartmouth College, The Hood Museum of Art, 2008.

Neptune, Jennifer S., and Lisa K. Neuman. “Basketry of the Wabanaki Indians.” In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, edited by Helaine Selin, 1–10. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10220-2.

Neuman, Lisa K. “Basketry as Economic Enterprise and Cultural Revitalization: The Case of the Wabanaki Tribes of Maine.” Wicazo Sa Review 25, no. 2 (2010): 89–106.

Nicholas, Joseph A. Baskets of the Dawnland People. Pleasant Point: Title VII Bilingual Education Program, 1980.

Passamaquoddy Wild Blueberry Co. “Wild Blueberries,” July 14, 2021. https://pquoddyberries.com/wild-blueberries/.

Ranco, Darren J. “Wikpiyik: The Basket Tree.” My Maine Stories. Accessed May 4, 2023. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2977/page/4666/display.

Sanipass, Marry. Basket Making Step-by-Step. Madewaska: St. John Valley Publishing, 1990.

Shultz, David. Baskets of Time: Profiles of Maine Indian Basket Makers. Kennebunkport: Home & Away Gallery, 2017.

Sockbeson, Rebecca Cardinal. “Waponahki Intellectual Tradition of Weaving Educational Policy.” Alberta Journal of Educational Research 55, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 351–64.

Soctomah, Donald. Hard Times at Passamaquoddy, 1921–1950: Tribal Life and Times in Maine and New Brunswick. Pleasant Point: Donald Soctomah, 2003.

University of Maine Hudson Museum. “Wabanaki Native Voices Videos - Hudson Museum - University of Maine.” Accessed May 4, 2023. https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/teacher-resources/maine-indian-native-voices-videos/.

Wabanaki Alliance. “Wabanaki History.” Accessed May 4, 2023. https://wabanakialliance.com/wabanaki-history/.

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. “The Traditional Material Culture of the Native Peoples of Maine.” edited by Bruce Bourque, 249–309. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.