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  2. 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.

  3. Delores Churchill - Wikipedia

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    Churchill is known for her utilitarian and ceremonial objects that often use spruce root, cedar bark, wool, and natural dyes.Some of her artwork is displayed at the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska, where she has also taught courses in basketry.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mary Holiday Black - Wikipedia

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    Mary Holiday Black (c. 1934 – December 13, 2022) was a Navajo basket maker and textile weaver from Halchita, Utah. [2] During the 1970s, in response to a long-term decline in Navajo basketry, Black played a key role in the revival of Navajo basket weaving by experimenting with new designs and techniques, pioneering a new style of Navajo baskets known as "story baskets."

  6. Dat So La Lee - Wikipedia

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    Five of Dat So La Lee's baskets are included in a 2023 exhibition Independent 20th Century in New York City. [11] The five include a basket titled "Brotherhood of Men" which sold for $1.2 million in 2007, and a 1916 basket titled "Myriads of Stars Shine Over Our Dead Ancestors" that Dat So La Lee considered as her best work.

  7. Fully feathered basket - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the baskets produced by one tribe were indistinguishable from those made by those of another tribe. [7] Some fully feathered baskets have small, distinguishing features which suggests a specific tribal heritage. [3] Fully feathered baskets were very personal items, often given as a gift and destroyed at the death of the owner. [4]

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  9. Underwater basket weaving - Wikipedia

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    Senator Robert Byrd used the phrase in 1969 when questioning the use of funds to offer professional training to Cuban refugees. [18] The University of Portsmouth had a joke syllabus for underwater basket weaving on the Technology faculty pages, [19] and another joke syllabus proposal was posted by a University of Central Arkansas student ...