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    Cherokee Basket Weaving

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    Cherokee basket weaving is one of the most popular and recognizable crafts produced by the Cherokee artists. These baskets are known for the beautiful designs and expert technique that has been passed down through generations of crafters. In precolonial and colonial times, predominate material that was used in basket weaving was rivercane. This was mainly due to the fact that rivercane was widely available near the south eastern rivers. Also, rivercane was generally easy to harvest and work with

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    A Northeast Indian basket was traditionally made out of pounded ash splints or braided sweetgrass. Northern Indian tribes like the Ojibwe and Dene craft birch bark baskets. Also the Inuit even makes whale baleen baskets. The original diversity of Native American basket styles is still very much evident today. Native American Indian Baskets range from very simple to elaborate and colorful works of art that took great skill to make. These baskets also involves secret techniques that have been past

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    A Living Tradition of the Native American Basketry Household baskets have been made by anonymous Native American artists for practical purposes for many generations, are reflective of their cultural understanding of the world, and carry symbolism which is important to study if one wishes to understand their outlook on life. Of various shapes and sizes, they are usually richly embellished and colored with meaningful designs and patterns, which were considered to be so important that instructions

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    I cried halfway throughout the story, not knowing what to expect for an ending. This is how I felt when reading the Manga Fruit Basket, a story about a young orphan girl who meets a family that is cursed by the Chinese zodiac. Overall this was a good manga; however, it may different for someone starting out to read Manga. There could have been some changes to create a better atmosphere for the readers and the Manga itself. Some changes that could have been made in the manga, are the type of drawing

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    A Short Story Of A Story

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    I woke up in a snow covered forest, shivering as I looked around dazed and confused. I looked up and was met by a cloud-covered sun, surrounded by frosted trees. It must have been midday, I thought to myself, “I've been out for some time.” I tried to gather how I got here, the snow around me was biting my skin, and I couldn’t feel most of my toes. I couldn't hear any birds chirping and I could smell something peculiar in the air. I sniffed the air for a moment like a bloodhound before I suddenly

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    commonly founded item in the museum were varies kind of basket. There were basket from 1800-20th century. They all came in different shape and size. One basket were from Chitimacha Native American culture found in Louisiana. These baskets are made from local river cane, which is a variety of bamboo. Chitimacha basket colors are red, black, yellow and the natural color of the cane. Another basket were from Lozi culture found at Zambia. This basket were produce from beautiful Makenge tree root. They were

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    taught some of my grandma’s old hobbies like, basket weaving and sewing. I still remember making my first pillow and not being able to reach the pedal to turn the sewing machine on. I remember my grandma saying with a laugh, “I’ll get it.” She held the pedal as finished sewing my heart covered masterpiece. Even though at the moment I did not think it was a big deal, but no I see it helped develop one of my hobbies. Which is upcycling. My first basket was more of a

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    seen all of the other fruits and vegetables, starting to get so excited. I was confused about what was going on. Why was every becoming excited instead of hiding from what may have been a creature that wants to kill us. On the rack above me sat a basket of mango's. I yelled to the top rack to see if they could tell me what was going on. The only response I had received from them was "there coming, get prepared." I then realized what was going on . The little creature was headed straight toward our

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    call the florist to send flowers?"Janice thought. Rolling herself out of bed abruptly to check her phone, she stubbed her foot on the laundry basket that didn't get put away from the day before and cuts her toe. Looking down and grimacing at sight of the drizzling oozing red liquid now expelling from it -caused by those innocent little slots in the laundry basket- she exclaimed out loud, "I need a wife! I can't keep up with everything!" The house was mess. So was her life. Every minute of every day

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    Basket Of Bread

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    The Basket of Bread The physical properties of the artwork (30-50 words) The maker of this painting was Salvador Dali. The materials he used were oil on wood panel. The dimensions are 12 ½ in x 12 ½ in. This painting was shown at the 27th International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He first did the painting in 1926 and then did a layer addition in 1945. (58) The subject matter of the artwork (80-130 words) The painting is a simple cloth, bread and basket. It

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