Basketry: Quick Facts

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Varieties of plaited and coiled work used in basketry.

Double-thick wattle-woven tray, from the former Ruanda-Urundi, Africa. In the University Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge, England.

Japanese openwork basket

Vietnamese basket

Karok container

Figure 150: Basketry mask, from the Sepik region of New Guinea. In the Musee de l'Homme, Paris.

19th-century Unangax̂ (Aleut) and Inuit baskets

Pomo feathered gift basket

Spiral-coiled basket with twill effect, from Białystok region, Poland; in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris.

Basket weaving on Madeira Island, Portugal

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