Learn how to create a small coiled basket with step-by-step instructions and live demonstrations. Receive basket-making supplies including multiple colours of raffia, a tapestry needle and a small ...
About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Corey Alston is a rare artisan in the craft of coiled basket weaving, a ...
Among the many cultural traditions that link Africa and America, one of the most beautiful is the weaving of coiled baskets. This craft was brought from West and Central Africa to the American ...
Sweetgrass basket weaving is one of the most enduring cultural traditions of the Gullah Geechee people, descendants of Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations of the southeastern ...
Book review by Susan Brown McGreevy, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 22, no. 3 (summer 1997), p. 96-97 NMAI copy 39088012162988 is a gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. A ...