Culture Making Articles items tagged crafts Culture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Copyright (c) 2025, Andy Crouch ExpressionEngine tag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02 Leaves and teeth tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.1979 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com Nate: ?This basket is beautiful, tiny (just over three inches tall), and presumably not for everyday use, what with the teeth and all. It comes from the tiny micronesian republic of Nauru, known more recently as a tiny oasis of environmental devastation, tax-shelter hijinks, internet crime, etc.?
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Basket (Egadakua), pandanus leaves, shark's teeth, fiber, late 19th-early 20th century, Nauru, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York :: via the Met's Artwork of the Day feed
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