Corn basket variation: Rocky Keezer w/turquoise accents
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At present Rocky Keezer is in poor health and is only helping apprentices to make baskets. This is one of his last nicely made baskets and I think it is a great one! He has used his mother Clara's corn basket mold, but done something entirely different. This basket is 5.5" long and 2.75" top diameter, 1.5" diameter at the bottom The foundation of the basket is brown ash splints, the traditional material of Maine and Eastern Canadian basketmakers and top of the lid is woven with tightly and finely braided tidal sweetgrass. The rim of the overhanging lid is wrapped with plain tidal sweetgrass. This is grass found in the tidal marshes near the Pleasant Point home of the Keezers. The grass was harvested in the late summer by Rocky, then dried and braided by his aunt, now deceased, Edith Pond - whose sweetgrass braids were among the most perfectly done I have ever found. The use of tidal sweetgrass in baskets was highly valued at the turn of the last century when traders and customers would pay a premium for baskets which had quantities of sweetgrass - such as this You may know that Rocky is the son of Clara Keezer, who was a winner of a NEA 2002 Heritage Fellowship award for her basketry work. According to the NEA website, this award is "the country's highest honor in the folk and traditional art" -... and includes all folk arts and
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