A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana - (Page 300)

300 Turtle Basket, ca. 2000 Palmetto; 4 x 6 x 4 in. Collection of Janie Verret Luster ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA JANIE VERRET LUSTER b. 1952, Bayou DuLarge, Louisiana Janie Verret Luster is a master palmetto basket weaver and cultural preservationist of the United Houma Nation, a state-recognized tribe from Southeast Louisiana. A dedicated practitioner of diverse tribal customs, she is widely recognized for her coiled half-hitch baskets, made using an intricate weaving technique lost to the Houma for nearly a generation. Reintroduced by Luster in the 1990s, the hitch-coil method with a half-hitch knot—common in areas of South and Central America—is considered limited in North America to Louisiana’s largest tribe of indigenous peoples. Baskets are made using dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) collected from the swamps and bayous that are prolific in Southeast Louisiana. TFP  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1303 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1303

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