https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry en-us 2019-02-28 18:00:39 UTC 2019-02-28 18:36:33 UTC hello@padlet.com senagundogduuu https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336546551 2019-02-28 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336546551 senagundogduuu https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336554433 The Babylonian god Marduk “plaited a wicker hurdle on the surface of the waters. He created dust and spread it on the hurdle.” Thus ancient Mesopotamian myth describes the creation of the earth using a reed mat. Many other creation myths place basketry among the first of the arts given to humans. The Dogon of West Africa tell how their first ancestor received a square-bottomed basket with a round mouth like those still used there in the 20th century. This basket, upended, served him as a model on which to erect a world system with a circular base representing the sun and a square terrace representing the sky.]]> 2019-02-28 18:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336554433 senagundogduuu https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336554973 Like the decorative motifs of any other art form, the geometric, stylized shapes may represent natural or supernatural objects, such as the snakes and pigeon eyes of Borneo, and the kachina (deified ancestral spirit), clouds, and rainbows of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. The fact that these motifs are given a name, however, does not always mean that they have symbolic significance or express religious ideas.]]> 2019-02-28 18:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336554973 senagundogduuu https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336555780
Sometimes symbolism is associated with the basket itself. Among the Guayaki Indians of eastern Paraguay, for example, it is identified with the female. The men are hunters, the women are bearers as they wander through the forest; when a woman dies, her last burden basket is ritually burned and thus dies with her.]]> 2019-02-28 18:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336555780 senagundogduuu https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336556746 Though it would appear that basketry might best be defined as the art or craft of making baskets, the fact is that the name is one of those the limits of which seem increasingly imprecise the more one tries to grasp it. The category basket may include receptacles made of interwoven, rather rigid material, but it may also include pliant sacks made of a mesh indistinguishable from netting—or garments or pieces of furniture made of the same materials and using the same processes as classical basketmaking. In fact, neither function nor appearance nor material nor mode of construction are of themselves sufficient to delimit the field of what common sense nevertheless recognizes as basketry.]]> 2019-02-28 18:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/senagundogduuu/whatisbasketry/wish/336556746