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Feature
Round Bread Basket
Description
Gullah sweetgrass small basket with handle/Measures approximately 6" across and 5.5" high. Sweetgrass baskets are almost identical in style to the shukublay baskets of Sierra Leone, where learning to coil baskets "so tightly they could hold water" was an important rite of passage in West African tribes like the Mende and the Temne.To create these intricate artworks, basketmakers use either a "sewing bone" or a "nailbone." Sewing bones are sharpened metal spoons, and nailbones are little metal picks made by flattening nails or whittling the rib bones of a cow or pig.
