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2. Agaseke - Wikipedia

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   Agaseke is a type of traditional Rwandese woven basket. [1] It is characterized by its flat circular base that is taller than it is wide, with a sloped conical fitted lid. It is traditionally made of native natural fibers in natural off-white colors with naturally-dyed patterns in colors like purple, green, black, yellow, and red. There are ...

3. Kete (basket) - Wikipedia

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   Kete are traditional baskets made and used by New Zealand's Māori people. [1] They are traditionally woven from the leaves of New Zealand flax called harakeke and have two handles at the top. [ 2 ] Other materials are sometimes used, including sedge grass or the leaves of the nikau palm and cabbage tree .

4. Basket weaving - Wikipedia

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   Artist Lucy Telles and large basket, in Yosemite National Park, 1933 A woman weaves a basket in Cameroon Woven bamboo basket for sale in K. R. Market, Bangalore, India. Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture.

5. Basket - Wikipedia

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   Prior to the invention of woven baskets, people used tree bark to make simple containers. These containers could be used to transport gathered food and other items, but crumbled after only a few uses. Weaving strips of bark or other plant material to support the bark containers would be the next step, followed by entirely woven baskets. The ...

6. Cookware and bakeware - Wikipedia

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   According to Frank Hamilton Cushing, Native American cooking baskets used by the Zuni (Zuñi) developed from mesh casings woven to stabilize gourd water vessels. He reported witnessing cooking basket use by Havasupai in 1881. Roasting baskets covered with clay would be filled with wood coals and the product to be roasted. When the thus-fired ...

7. Baleen basketry - Wikipedia

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   Inupiat baleen basket, with an ivory polar bear and seal handle , made by George Omnik (1905 - 1978) of Point Hope, Alaska. Displayed at the Honolulu Museum of Art . Baleen basketry is a particular type of basketry , an Alaska Native art made from whale baleen developed in Utqiagvik , Point Hope , and Wainwright , Alaska by North Alaskan ...