Sentence examples for basketry in from inspiring English sources

NEWTONVILLE The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art," tracing the history of basketry in Africa and America.

The most active art, and probably the most successful, is basketry, in which the present-day artists are in every way equal to, or better than, their predecessors.

The Chumash were skilled artisans: they made a variety of tools out of wood, whalebone, and other materials, fashioned vessels of soapstone, and produced some of the most complex basketry in native North America.

The eastern section of the gulf also developed a flat, oval mask made of basketry covered in bark cloth; the masks were almost identical in shape with the sacred wooden boards and were painted with similar designs.

In the north, for instance, basketry was twined in the fashion of the Oregon Indians; in the centre it was intricately ornamented like that of the Pomo; and in the south it had mixed characteristics.

Dried reed stems have been used for millennia as thatching and construction material, in basketry, for arrows and pens, and in musical instruments (see reed instruments).

Masks of the coastal Boiken were in a long-nosed style; others were made in basketry.

The Cahuilla traditionally lived in thatched or adobe houses or in sun shelters without walls and were skilled in basketry and pottery.

Although skilled in basketry, they do not weave or do metalwork.

The Basketmaker II and III periods are named for the fine basketry often found in the habitation sites of these people.

Although both pottery and basketry are produced in much smaller quantities than they were after first European contact, the quality of contemporary work is consistently high.