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NHF Films December 2002

PO Box 900, 379 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine 04416 phone: 207 469-0924
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Monthly Selection: December 2002
Title: "Maliseet Basket Making "
Date: 1960 Audio: Silent
NHF Collections Title: Nicholas Smith Collection
Type of Source Film: Amateur
From: 16 mm. reversal pos.
Clip Description: A detailed record of traditional Indian basketmaking, "Maliseet Basket Making at Woodstock, N.B.," shows making ash strips and weaving them into various basket shapes. The Woodstock Maliseet First Nation, New Brunswick, is on the St. John River.
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Excerpt from
"Maliseet Basket Making "
A logger from Machias Lumber Company in Washington County, Maine, 1931.
Fashioning a basket from ash strips.
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Still from this month's clip
Loggers drive logs down the Machias River in spring 1931.
Finishing the basket by fitting the carved edgepiece.
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