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Double-thick wattle-woven tray, from the former Ruanda-Urundi, Africa. In the University Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge, England.

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woven wattle

basketry

Also known as: wickerwork

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Hawaiian art

In Oceanic art and architecture: The Hawaiian Islands
With the cloaks, chiefs wore wicker helmets, shaped as caps with crescentic crests, which were also covered in feathers. Heads of the war god were also made of wickerwork covered with red feathers; the mouths on such heads were set with dog’s teeth, and the eyes were made of large…
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In basketry: Wattle construction
…The woven type, sometimes termed wickerwork, is made of stiff standards interwoven with flexible threads. It is the type most commonly found in European and African basketry and is found sporadically in North and South America and in Near and Far Eastern Asia.
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