Theresa Secord (b.1958) is a traditional Penobscot basket maker. Theresa learned to weave in a traditional setting on Indian Island Maine in 1988 from an elder in the community, Madeline Tomer Shay. She uses her great-grandmother’s wooden forms and tools dating to the 1800s that have been handed down to her. Theresa is teaching many […]

It isn’t a Wabanaki Winter Market at the Hudson Museum without Eldon Hanning – Mi’kmaq – demonstrating brown ash pounding and the preparation of splints to weave baskets. Eldon Hanning and his son Frank are some of the only basketmakers, who can select a brown ash tree in the woods. Father and son split the […]