WOVEN DISPLAY

Solemn and sturdy. Native American basketry and beaded belts on display c. 1900. via USC  

MUGS & JUGS

Ceramics Industrial Revolution. Storage jars from late 1500s England, marbled mug and a flower vase all from the mid 1700s England. That’s old! via University of Wisconsin    

OFFERINGS

Offering baskets and bowls. top, made by Wixarika people in Mexico for rituals, 1975. bottom, made by Pomo people in California, circa 1900. via WEIRD FRIENDS via National Museum of the American Indian

SOX & POMO

Soft, Cozy, Warm—basketry socks from the Artic! And their California-made mates, feathery Pomo basket bowls. The name Pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words [pʰoːmoː] and [pʰoʔmaʔ]. It originally meant “those who live at red earth hole” … (not hip abbr. for Post Modernism) via Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at [...]

PLASTICS

1. bowl, circa 1930 2. hair comb, circa 1950-59 3. beaker, circa 1935 4. brooch, circa 1940-49 Museum of Design in Plastics: Arts University College at Bournemouth. via VADS

VESSELS

of the woven basket variety. I appreciate them for their usefulness & personalities. via the enormous collection of vessels from all mediums at Smithsonian

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