The eyes of Clara Neptune Keezer, a Passamaquoddy elder, brighten when she recalls the moment a voice on the other end of the phone announced that the basket maker from Pleasant Point near Perry had been awarded a 2002 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. "I was happy," she says quietly. "Later that night, I had lots of tears."

On this day, she sits in the Circle of Four Directions wing at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, where a reception is taking place to commemorate her award. In the middle of the circular room, which distantly resembles a teepee, her fancy ...

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