Creative Traditions

Basketry

basket, 1875-1900
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik ?
snowshoe weave
dyed and woven ash splints with wood
5 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm
NBM Collection
New Brunswick Museum, (X6196)
     [185k]basket, 1875-1900
[240k]basket, 1900-1910
Molly Sacobie
basket, 1900-1910
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
dyed and woven ash splints with braided sweetgrass
8 x 16 x 16 cm
Gift of the maker
New Brunswick Museum, (X6186)
Philomena Nelson, died 1978
basket, 1975
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
wart weave; ribbon candy weave
dyed and woven ash splints with sweetgrass
9.5 x 26.5 x 27.5 cm
Purchase, 1980
New Brunswick Museum, (1980.78.13)
     [151k]
[205k]basket, 1875-1900
basket, 1875-1900
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik ?
standard diamond weave
dyed and woven ash splints with sweetgrass
9 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm
NBM Collection
New Brunswick Museum, (X6178)
basket, c. 1890
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
thistle weave
woven ash splints with sweetgrass
12.0 x 18.0 x 18.0 cm
Gift of Grace W. Leavitt, 1907
New Brunswick Museum, (5090)
Photographed by W. Mark Polchies
     [260k]
basket, c. 1890
[215k]basket, c. 1865
basket, c. 1865
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
wart weave
woven ash splints
9.5 x 23.5 cm
Webster Museum Foundation purchase
New Brunswick Museum, (1974.206)
Photographed by W. Mark Polchies
Veronica Soloman
basket, Rainbow Pattern, 1948
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
dyed and woven ash splints and sweetgrass
10.7 x 25.6 x 25.8 cm
Pilick (Kingsclear First Nation)
Gift of Alice Lusk Webster, 1948
New Brunswick Museum, (A48.15)
     [255k]
basket, Rainbow Pattern, 1948
[270k]basket, c. 1830
basket, c. 1830
First Nations; Wolastoqiyik
dyed and woven ash splints
15 x 19.5 cm
Gift of Gaby Pelletier, 1976
New Brunswick Museum, (1976.41)
Photographed by W. Mark Polchies