Name: Aboriginal American Weaving
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Author: Mary Lois Kissell
ISBN: 9781475146219

Aboriginal American Weaving

By Mary Lois Kissell 18 Jan, 2019

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Aboriginal American Weaving is a Paper Read before The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers at their Eighty-eighth Meeting at Mechanics Fair Building, Boston, Mass., April 27th, 1910. The indigenous peoples and the native and aboriginal tribes are renowned for their basket-weaving techniques. These baskets may then be traded for goods but may also be used for religious ceremonies. The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, Aboriginals, First Nations, and (by Christopher Columbus' geographic mistake) Indians, later disambiguated as Red Indians, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, and by unique tribal citizenry. The indigenous peoples and the native and aboriginal tribes are renowned for their basket-weaving techniques. These baskets may then be traded for goods but may also be used for religious ceremonies. While basket weaving is one of the widest spread crafts in the history of any human civilization, it is hard to say just how old the craft is because natural materials like wood, grass, and animal remains decay naturally and constantly. So without proper preservation (which was not available two hundred years ago, much less two thousand years ago) much of the history of basket making has been lost and is simply speculated upon. ** Less

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