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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 22, 2014, 09:27:20 pm

Title: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 22, 2014, 09:27:20 pm: Spent the weekend demonstrating Abenaki basketmaking at the Vermont History Expo in Tunbridge. Lots of offers to buy my work, but I'm not ready to part with it quite yet.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U9i7MJoDo6Y/U6df8jArK-I/AAAAAAAACqg/qLrmZK30FPE/w769-h577-no/20140621_162217.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VHICON-C14I/U6df8qZUZ4I/AAAAAAAACqk/J4OVG5vWVH4/w769-h577-no/20140621_110245.jpg)

Note the "spirit stones". They help keep the baskets "grounded"

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ljdoqsp1wI4/U6df8p7jTOI/AAAAAAAACqk/g-hQCiLXwxQ/w769-h577-no/20140621_110217.jpg)

Exhausted but satisfied.

Anyone have some swamp ash they can peel and ship to me? splint is getting hard to find.
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: TRACY on June 22, 2014, 10:47:45 pm: Real nice work!

Tracy
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Post by: Pat B on June 23, 2014, 12:29:11 am: Are they all ash? Very nice basketry.
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Post by: Bone pile on June 23, 2014, 07:44:13 am: Are you from Vermont? we go up to see family almost every year. Beautiful work
Roger
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 23, 2014, 08:42:46 am: Now you did it A-a-ron! Sweet basket work my friend.
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Post by: Zuma on June 23, 2014, 10:58:17 am: Now that takes some patience and skill.
Folks around here use White oak. Small trees.
Looks like you had good weather.
Zuma
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 23, 2014, 05:26:42 pm: Thanks Tracey!
Yup Pat, they're all brown ash and sweetgrass. I'm sweating bullets about the emerald ash borer since it's already tough to find brown ash as it is. We're paying $3 per foot for finished, poor quality splint.

Bone Pile; Vermont born and raised. I like it here.

PD; Thanks!

Zuma; There are some whites in the adirondacks that use white oak, but Abenaki only use black ash. It's sacred as a part of the creation myth and is much more pliable and durable than split oak. It ain't an Abenaki basket if it's got anything that's not black ash ;)
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Post by: JW_Halverson on June 23, 2014, 05:28:10 pm: Very nice work, Double-A-Ron.
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 23, 2014, 05:31:48 pm: Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 23, 2014, 08:42:46 am
... A-a-ron!...
Quote from: JW_Halverson on June 23, 2014, 05:28:10 pm
...Double-A-Ron.
I feel like a new name has stuck... :)
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Post by: JackCrafty on June 23, 2014, 07:01:15 pm: Very Cool!
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 23, 2014, 07:50:44 pm: Quote from: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 23, 2014, 05:31:48 pm
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 23, 2014, 08:42:46 am
... A-a-ron!...
Quote from: JW_Halverson on June 23, 2014, 05:28:10 pm
...Double-A-Ron.
I feel like a new name has stuck... :)

Ever watch Key & Peele? Its a skit about a substitute teach messing up all the pronunciations of names. He got mad when no hands raised! Im sure YouTube has it.
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 23, 2014, 08:43:09 pm: Tim-oh-thee?

pree-sent
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 24, 2014, 09:54:01 am: :)
Title: Re: Great weekend showcasing baskets
Post by: soy on June 26, 2014, 10:43:33 pm: Nice work!!!