Sturdy and inexpensive, oak-splint baskets were used in almost every kitchen and barn on the old homesteads. Prized now by collectors, these plain, undecorated, utilitarian forms tended to fall by the ...

The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown will presents “Plain and Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets,” an exhibition of baskets spanning two centuries. The art of ash splint basketry is a synthesis ...

Humans have been weaving limbs, vines and leaves together for thousands of years. Archaeologists have shown that baskets pre-date pottery in certain areas of the world. They come in all shapes and ...

Frank Weese is one of Michigan's few Indian black ash splint basket makers. For him, the first step to making any basket is selecting the tree and sprinkling tobacco on the ground before he cuts it.

LITTLETON, Maine – There is an ancestral rhythm to the pounding of the ash tree as the basket maker works. Without those who pound the ash, there would be no traditional baskets. And as Mi’kmaq Nation ...

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