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Word: basketwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...geography, with scholarly gloss held to a welcome minimum. Prehistoric stone carvings from the southeastern forests immortalize a puma or a hawk in onyx and a snake in a slithering s of shiny mica. The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indian Conquest | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Peabody's retrospect on 19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...

Author: By Rodney Perry, | Title: GALLERIES | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

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