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University of California

Shapes and Uses of California Indian Basketry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an illustrated comprehensive overview of Native American basket types. Discusses different styles and what they are used for.
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Charlotte Mecklenburg Library: Hands on Crafts: Basketry

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explains what basket weaving is, how it is used, vocabulary terms, and some of the history of this craft. Includes a basket matching game, and a video of a teenager talking about how she learned to weave from her mother and grandmother.
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Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Beads and Beadwork

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes different techniques of bead weaving used by the Eastern Woodland tribes. There are five different topics discussed as well as a bibliography. The five topics provide detailed descriptions of the types, techniques and...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
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Chimayo Trading and Mercantile

For Students 9th - 10th
Southwestern art and artists are featured at this Chimayo Trading and Mercantile site. "Paintings, Navajo rugs, Native American pottery, Kachinas, and Native American baskets" are all links found at the bottom of the page.

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