American Indian baskets made in New England

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2004 by Nan Wolverton

(26) Photographs of cedar bark fragments from the Red Bank site are included in Joleen Gordon, Construction and Reconstruction of a Mikmaq Sixteenth-Century Cedar-Bark Bag, Nova Scotia Museum curatorial report, number 76 (Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, 1993), p. 22.

(27) Nathan Fiske inventory, book 64/159 (Worcester County Probate Records).

(28) "Indian Families Who Have Lived in This Vicinity," Warren [Massachusetts] Herald, June 18, 1897.

(29) Hurd, History of Otsego County, New York, p. 304.

(30) Henry Reed Stiles, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut ... Prior to 1768 (New York, 1859), p. 114. I would like to thank my colleague Frank White for bringing this reference to my attention.

(31) Interview with Walter Henries by Helen Holley, January 10, 1937 (see n. 9).

(32) Ibid.

(33) John Milton Earle, State of Massachusetts, Senate Report No. 96, to Governor and Council, Concerning the Indians of the Commonwealth, Under the Act of April 6, 1859 (Boston, 1861).

(34) Octavia M. Sweetser, "Angela Sprague Leach," c. 1949 (manuscript collection, Brimfield Public Library, Brimfield, Massachusetts).

NAN WOLVERTON is an independent scholar and museum consultant specializing in decorative arts and historic landscapes. She was formerly the curator of decorative arts at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.