Grandmother Doris 1926-1997 was Abenaki/Mohawk and beloved by the Abenaki community.
Although I never had the opportunity to meet Grandmother Doris, many have shared their stories with me
of her kind and caring nature and her deeply spiritual gifts.
the beaded portrait contains over 10,000 beads and took 65 hours to complete on a large beading loom.....the loom beaded portrait was then sewn onto a bag I made out of velvet......
10,622 BEADS
Dr. Margaret (Marge) Bruchac
Marge Bruchac portrait 15,000 beads
2012 funded by a grant from NEFA
exhibited at the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine , Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH and Boston Children's Museum
Grandmother Mali Keating (Abenaki)
15,000 beads
exhibited at the Abbe Museum Bar Harbor, Maine and Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH
private collection
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Molly Spotted Elk (Penobscot) private collection
Rhonda Besaw • living in the "Great North Woods" of New Hampshire • 603-837-3381 • send an email
