Under the scorching afternoon sun of Bolgatanga, a rural community north of Ghana, Patience Apambila is splitting strands of dry grass in preparation for weaving them into baskets. Apambila is one of ...

James Carthel picks up a handful of brown, dried-out grass from his yard - six or eight narrow strands, each several inches long. He divides the bundle into two sections and squirts some water to make ...

Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the ...

Basket weaving has become a way for ‘Little Doe’ to explore her Native American heritage. Barbara “Little Doe” Adkins, of Pampa, looks across a field of waving grasses and envisions the dried blades ...

Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother’s knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. In the Gullah ...

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, honored the history and tradition of Mohawk basket making this past summer. For many generations,... Dec 30, 2015 — The Adirondack Museum in Blue ...

A conversational hum fills the Goongerah community hall, in the East Gippsland mountains. Loading... For one of Victoria's most remote places, it is busy. About 20 women and children sit in a circle, ...

An advertisement that ran in Charleston newspapers announced the sale of a valuable agricultural commodity: Cotton and Rice Negroes. The auction was held at 11 a.m. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street.

To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...