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Hopi
Tribe Basketry
Hopi baskets most often denote kachinas or colorful bands on
jars, vases, and circular plates called plaques. They were often sold
to the Navajo or used in ceremonies. Additionally, they are often used
(even today) as a source of currency or a way of marking debt, like a debt
marker or check. The Hopi baskets can usually be identified by style
with each mesa having an unique approach.Second Mesa
Hopi Baskets
Using a coil method, colorful grasses are woven over a foundation to
create patterns. A foundation of grass is wrapped in various colored
yucca to create a single coil. The coils are then stitched together
using an awl.
Typical Hopi coil method basket designs:
Wedding Basket - Given to the groom's mother's house piled high with
cornmeal.
Plaques - Plaques with kachina faces or figures; turtles and clouds; .
Typical Hopi materials:
Yucca strips, Yucca shreds, and Galleta grass.
Third Mesa Hopi Baskets
A wicker method is also used. Starting with a plait center, the
basket is then woven in a wicker method until the desired size. The
smaller and finer the warp and weft the larger the basket can be woven.
Typical Hopi coil method basket designs:
Geometric radiating - Triangles
Kachina Plaques - Plaques with kachina faces or figures.
Typical Hopi materials:
Sumac twigs, rabbitbrush spints and natural or commercial dyes.
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