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2005 September/October Museums
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 Abbe Museum
The Mocotaugan, or crooked knife, was an essential tool for Native people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Early European explorers described the knife as “peculiar” because of the angle of the blade to the wooden handle. Originally made using flint instead of steel, the Mocotaugan had a wide range of uses, including building canoes and wigwams, cutting strips to use in basket weaving, and making bows and arrows.
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Basketry: Weaving New Life into Ancient Forms
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 Basketry is arguably humankind’s oldest art form. From time immemorial, women and men of the Americas have bent, twined and coiled root, grass and branch into superlative art. Weavers crafted more than just baskets for storing and preparing food, though—they also wove clothing, hats, baby carriers and gambling trays for daily use, gifts, ceremonies and trading.
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2001 May/June
By Site Editor
| Published 05/1/2001
| Navajo , Hopi , Aleut , Inuit , Iñupiat , Athabascan , Haida , Tlingit , Anishinaabe , Passamaquoddy , Penobscot , Tewa , Micmac , Ojibwe , Tsimshian , Maliseet , Diné , 2001
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Northwest Meets Southwest
Southwestern
Native artists travel to the Pacific Northwest homelands of the Haida
people, and a group of Haida artists travels to the Southwest, to trade
new methods of creating art, forging bonds of friendship and
discovering their common natures.
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