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Under the scorching afternoon sun of Bolgatanga, a rural community north of Ghana, Patience Apambila is splitting strands of dry grass in preparation for weaving them into baskets.
Native American basket weaving is an ancient art. It reflects culture and skills. Baskets hold symbolism and history. Tribes ...
Grass basket weaving is an ancient and fine art that many Alaska Native women continue today. The types of baskets can vary with the region and the Native people engaging in the art.
Women from the Kolam tribe learn how to weave baskets using cattail grass through DRDA project officer K Vijayalakshmi at Kolamguda village of Nirmal district.
Locals and visitors alike can learn how to weave a sweetgrass basket at the Charleston Museum. Local artisan Sarah ...
She learned how to smoke salmon, gather edible berries and how to weave grass baskets. These traditions defined her early years. But that life ended in 1949, when Louie Thadei was 7 years old.
Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother’s knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. In the Gullah ...
For many generations, sweet grass and ash splint baskets, utilitarian and decorative, have been an important part of Mohawk culture. Florence Benedict learned to weave baskets from her grandmother.
Teeter Marie Romero of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians shows one of the baskets that was weaved in the traditional Juaneno style, using deer grass, juncus reed and yucca.
For generations, weavers expertly twisted reeds, wood and grasses, using their own signature style to create baskets and creels to carry and store… ...
Stephanie Wood was right in the middle of helping enmesh participants in her family’s 700-year-old tradition of Kalapuya basket weaving at the 1861 Brunk House when something added yet another ...