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Nantucket lightship baskets: origins and variations.
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The communities of Nantucket Island, MA, produce a type of rattan basket that is known for its durability and versatility of form. The local basket-making industry developed from coopers, and later basket designs bear the market of its maker's individuality in the handles and shape.
Only in recent years has serious attention been paid to the history and origins of the incredibly diverse variety of American baskets, long regarded merely as utilitarian objects. No other tradition of basketry comprises such a wide range of types and styles as those woven here since the time of the ...
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