Basketry
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Basketry is the single traditional art for which Choctaws artists are most widely recognized. Early Choctaw baskets are made of split river cane and palmetto, colored with plant dyes. A wide variety of intricate forms were made and developed by ancestral Choctaw people (see Choctaw Baskets), many of them were used for food preparation, storage/transportation, or as items of gift and exchange.
The baskets pictures in the following pages represent some of the earliest surviving Choctaw basketry forms.
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