When spirit speaks (you listen)
Geo Soctomah Neptune, Passamaquoddy / American, born 1988
2021-2023
Brain tanned hide, smoked tanned hide, black ash, sweetgrass, aniline dyes, birch bark, duck feathers, glass beads, conch shell beads, fresh water pearls and stick pearls, nylon thread, copper wire, cotton and polyester fiber fill
Overall: 18 3/4 × 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (47.6 × 21.5 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Judith Liff and Joseph N. Barker, Class of 1966
2024.16
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on bottom, in black ink: Geo S. Neptune / 2023 Passamaquoddy Tribe
Provenance
The artist, Geo Soctomah Neptune, Indian Township, Maine; commissioned by Judith Liff and Joseph N. Barker, Nashville, Tennessee; given to present collection, 2024.
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