Abenaki Basketry; National Museum of Man Mercury series/Collection Mercure Musee national de lhomme (Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 85)
by Gaby Pelletier
Category: Social Science

Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880 and the present and the influence of historical events.