http://www.basketmakers.com Articles, pictures
and resources about the tradition, the artists
and the threats to the continuation of the tradition
due to development.
http://www.basketmakers.com History and production,
step by step instructions for harvesting and
preparing materials and weaving different patterns
from Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chitimacha traditional
patterns, artist profiles, basket photos
http://www.floridamemory.com
A lesson plan based on having students analyze
photos and audio interview of white oak basket
maker Lucreaty Clark from Florida; connects to
language arts and technology
http://www.mammothcavebasketmakers.com If you want to expand
the project to include other basket making traditions,
here are two websites to give you a jumpstart.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/baskets/ The Language of Native
American Baskets from the Weaver’s View
Showcasing the history and contemporary basket
making of five Native American groups –
Haida, Penobscot, Tohono O’odham, Pomo,
Wasco Nation of the Warm Springs Confederacy