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1) Our Lives in Our Hands
Documentary on the Micmac basketry collective that markets handcrafted baskets for its members. NHF has obtained limited distribution rights to this film from DER, Inc.   more
Aroostook Micmac Council Collection
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Creator(s)
Karen Carter, Harald Prins, Ph.D.
Primary Format and Extent
video (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary
Collection contains a documentary, "Our Lives in Our Hands," about the Micmac Indian basketry collaborative that markets handcrafted baskets for its members.
Biographical/Historical Notes
Harald Prins is a visual anthropologist and ethnographer and former faculty member of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine), very active in the effort to obtain tribal status with the federal government for the Micmac Indians. Karen Carter is a New Jersey-based independent filmmaker.
People and Organizations
Aroostook Band of Micmac
Genre(s)
Documentary
Subject(s)
Handicraft, Native Americans, Women
Place(s)
Houlton, Maine
Aroostook County, Maine
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