Curly Blueberry Basket
Clara Neptune Keezer, Passamaquoddy / American, 1930 - 2016
Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
2008
Brown ash and sweetgrass; Curly weave
Overall: 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (11.4 × 8.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman '40 Acquisition Fund
2008.45.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, on rim of lid, diagonally from top right to bottom left, from right to left, in gold ink: Clara / Keezer / 2008
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2008-June 28, 2009.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Provenance
The artist, Pleasant Point, Maine; sold to present collection, 2008.
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