Since then, Chaisson has become one of the United Houma Nation's premier weavers ... First, a frond The basket-weaving process starts with a palmetto frond cut from the very middle, or heart ...

Luster is credited by the United Houma Nation with bringing back a traditional palmetto basket weaving technique known as the half-hatch, an art nearly lost to time. The workshops will run from 10 ...

The Houma natives' choice to use palmettos in their basket weaving is a tangible link between her people and their land, she ...

But several determined basket weavers are trying to preserve part of their culture. Janie Luster and her sister-in-law Zoeanna Verret are weaving traditional Houma baskets out of palmetto leaves.

Since Dean began basket weaving, others have also celebrated her ... exhibits at the Southdown Plantation House along La. 311 in Houma. The Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum on Park Avenue in ...

The second craft was a Houma style of palmetto baskets, a skill lost to the tribe for nearly a century before they were able to locate an example of it in a Denver art museum. Through a lot of ...

WENDLAND: We're in Houma, about an hour southwest of New Orleans. Luster will dry the leaves out and tear them into strips and use them to weave baskets - not just any basket - the Native American ...

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