Three Basket

Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Fri, 2013-06-07 15:03
Text: 
"Red Leaves"
Character Key: 
Three Basket
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Three Basket
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Three Basket
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indian Tribal Member
Rank: 
Major
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Choctaw|Chickasaw Plantation in "Red Leaves" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Saturday, January 1, 1780 to Friday, December 31, 1790
Biography: 

Three Basket is about sixty years old and like Louis Berry, described as "squat," "burgher-like; paunchy" - and more metaphorically, as well as more exotically, as having a "certain blurred serenity like [a] carved head on a ruined wall in Siam or Sumatra" (313). He wears "an enameled snuffbox" as an earring (313). Apparently he is a kind of overseer on the Indian plantation. Along with Louis Berry, he spends six days tracking down a Issetibbeha's servant, often remembering Doom's death, which was the last time a runaway slave had to be captured and killed.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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