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Identifier: howtomakebaskets00whit (find matches)
Title: How to make baskets
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: White, Mary, 1869- Doubleday, Nelli Blanchan De Graff, Mrs., 1865-1918
Subjects: Basket making
Publisher: Doubleday, Page and co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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k from their hands,apply machinery to it and convert the manufactureof textiles into one of the great staples of com-merce for the world. Through the same phases of development allraces of mankind must pass, ethnology teaches us,and today our Indian woman is where Egyptian,Roman, Teuton, Frank and Briton women oncewere before their respective races attained civiliza-tion and culture. Like the Indian weaver in theWest today, where civilization has not yet effacedher, these women of the ancient world were oncethe weavers for their people; references to theirspinning, weaving, and basketry abound in earlyliteratures, and examples of their similar work, stillextant in museums, testify to the sisterhood of thehuman race. Into all these primitive home-madearticles, beauty slowly found greater and greaterexpression in form, color and design; and it wasoften wrought out through materials so crude anddifficult to manipulate as to make one wonder thateffort to transform them was even attempted.
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