Clara Keezer Passamaquoddy Tricolor Basket Wabanaki quartz This sculpture

This sculpture

Sterling silver findings

The imagination

Chance Griffith is a young artist who has learned how to work with birch bark from his father

Purse is 8" x 6 1/2": 25" including strap and fringe

Clara Keezer Passamaquoddy Tricolor Basket Wabanaki quartz This sculptureClara Keezer Passamaquoddy Tricolor Basket Wabanaki A lovely example of the work of NEA National Heritage Fellow Clara Keezer from 2005. Keezer was one of the long time Wabanaki weavers who kept the art of basket making alive, making it possible for the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to create an apprenticeship program for younger weavers in the 1990s. The tri color refers to the bands of dyed ash circling the basket in a diagonal: purple, pink,