These baskets are part of a larger donation of 22 objects, collected by Joan Cook Luckardt between 1981-1983 while she was doing fieldwork for her doctorate with the Passamaquoddy, a North American Indian tribe who live in eastern Maine. Most of the baskets date to 1981-1983 but few date to the 1940’s. Passamaquoddy men and women made baskets; some of the most famous basket makers were men. The Passamaquoddy started making fancy baskets as a means of economic survival to sell to tourists during the Victorian era. They continued to be made through the 1980s to today, evolving to become a nationally recognized art form which expresses Passamaquoddy traditional art and their living culture.
The Dr. Joan Cook Luckhardt Collection
Gift of Dr. Robert K. Tucker
Original source can be found here.
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