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Hélène J. Balfet
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Former staff member for comparative technology, Musée de l'Homme, Paris. Author of "Basketry: A Proposed Classification" in Papers on Californian Archaeology.

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Basket weaving on Madeira Island, Portugal
Basketry, art and craft of making interwoven objects, usually containers, from flexible vegetable fibres, such as twigs, grasses, osiers, bamboo, and rushes, or from plastic or other synthetic materials. The containers made by this method are called baskets. The Babylonian god Marduk “plaited a…
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