Tree of Nursery

My trip to the Tree of Nursery was very interesting. Abe Sanchez gave a little lecture about the basket weaving and how it has lost it over the generations with the Native Americans. However, there are a few people who still do the basket weaving to keep the traditions. Mr. Sanchez talking about the different plants that are needed to make the baskets were nice to know. The materials do come in different seasons and others would need to come after a fire. This seem to help the plants that the basket weaving do use. The making of the basket are not easy as one would think. There is a lot of talent that a person would need to make on the baskets. One thing that I took from this that I would have never known that there are only certain plant that need to make the baskets. That it takes a long time to even think of make a basket, you would need to make sure the plants are ready to be used and it not you would have to wait before using them. The different tools that is used make have change a little, but the style and way of making the baskets are still the same. Even though I learning all the plants that are used in making the baskets, I would not be able to pick them out from all the other plants. This was the first time for me to learn about making the baskets from the native plants that the Native Americans use. I found it educational and interesting to know. I would have never guessed that there are many style of making the baskets and different ways of weaving them. Just like in the Southern California Native Americans that they weave to the right, while the Norther California Native Americans weave to the left.