How to Make a Traditional Woven Basket from a Tree | Short Film Showcase
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Using the tools of his late father, Stephen Jerome continues the traditional indigenous art of basket making in this meditative short by filmmaker Heather Condo. Watch the entire process unfold, from chopping down the tree in the forest to weaving in the last element in the studio.
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For Stephen Jerome, basket-weaving is a unique Mik'maq tradition that has been passed down for generations in his family. What interests you the most about this master basket-maker?
What type of tree did he use?
Every season in Canada , has its unique activity.
afroCENTRIKrafter He use Black Ash a Friend of Stephen Jerome 🇨🇦⚓️
I'm amazed at his strength and precision in making ribbed baskets. That and that he he does everything himself, from the tree trunk to the end product.
@@afrocentrikrafter2967 Меня тоже интересует какое дерево он использует?
So many skills we take for granted, on this earth that are a disappearing. Glad to see this one preserved.
This video illustrates the virtue of sharp tools!
Smell the wood, smell it
I really respect what he's created and how he did so, pretty dope skill
Mk S. 100 percent agree!
not easy either, i've tried it with dried flax & yucca leaves
Must be somewhere in Nova Scotia Canada were Mi'kmaq people live.
In our country we call this sort of baskets "potato baskets" as they mostly are used in picking potato crop. But we make them from split willow twigs or (in rare ocasions) weaving is done with spruce roots. I myself made several of them. Here I think they guy uses ash splits. Extremely beutiful!
people use ''ratan'' in my country and its more sturdy and flexible , so its easier to bend .
Gescapegiag, Canada
Wow! What a craftsman. I'd definitely buy that.
As a basket weaver myself I can confirm that this dude makes the process to deceptively easy
Here in India, we use bamboo. It grows quickly and when one is cut down, no significant damage is caused to the environment
In Europe there's no native bamboo. We mainly use willow wickers it grows fast too, but I've seen baskets woven from birch both wickers and bark, hazel, reeds, junipers, conifer roots and many others.
Nice, I just learned something new today. I like this hope you guys post more similar to this.
Best video I've ever seen on basket weaving! Thank you.
This is so beautiful. I love how there are no words.
wow. The end result was very impressive. I didn't know wood baskets were made like this, the tools etc.
I love it! ❤ Birch baskets! What a forgotten art! ❤Thanks, @National Geographic! ❤ Still keeping it real! 😉
👏👏👏True form of craftsmanship.👏👏👏👏
I love wildlife and I love animals especially birds
Wow! Fantastic
Very nice video! Love seeing all the specialised tools. Thanks for sharing!!
Wow! This is beautiful craftsmanship!
Wow!! Just WOW!
Awesome! Always learning new things with NatGeo ✌
He's an artist
Lovely! I wish it had had more detail and had been longer! :)
He has some short videos of his shop and there are many basket video on the Tube. Check out Jill Choates
WoW..... 💜
i love national geographic
Amazing skill. I do hope he gets more than one basket out of that whole tree. Otherwise the term ‘pyrrhic victory’ comes to mind.
wow, just amazing
Hi there. I see that you recently held a basket making workshop in Queens county. Is it possible for you to provide a workshop in Lunenburg County?
Thanks, Claire
Beautiful a true art
Well done NG.
Wow, masha' Allah.
He's very creative!
wow..my life is complete in this looney bin..i can now weave baskets..lol..thank you
Such a beautiful video
2:42
Idk why but that made me laugh 😂
Skills!
This is beautiful. Why did he smell the tree before he took it? "Smell before you fell." 😊
The smell determines If it’s a good basket tree. If it is, it smells sweet like sugar or wine!
Amazing Stamina 👍👍👍
good
Incredible
absolutely beautiful =)
Wow that was amazing
0% complete, 1% complete, 96% complete, 97% complete.
Simply amazing!
Amazing! This could come in handy durin a survival situation
new zealand been doing it for hundreds of years, but with dried flax leaves. Look up flax weaving or hala weaving, "hala" is another name for the pandanus tree
Yes having a basket will save your life
if its a survival situation you wont have those tools and if you do have those kind of tools its not much of a survival an a basket is the first concern you have on your mind because it can obviously save your life
the skill would. you probably wouldn't do a black ash basket but a fish trap from willow would be doable.
o.o Wow, didn't think it took so much to make a basket :o Beautiful.
can yall do something better and stop hating on him
WOW
Does anyone recognise\know the name of the tree that he used?
Looked like a walnut ,to me.
George.
Thanks tirpitz19, I think you're right.
It is black ash or in Maine they call brown ash ( i think). There are more videos of Jerome and others showing his way and more traditional ways. I use a small sledge hammer and pound the billets. Many pound the log with hammer or axe poll. I sell strips on ebay as well as sticks to pound your own. If your up north look for ash trees growing in a wet area. It's probably black ash.
To those who keep commenting about all the ‘waste of the tree’ - they only documented him making the one basket... that doesn’t mean that he didn’t go back get the rest of the tree and make more ... and he probably made MANY more from the small part of the tree he was able to carry back in his first trip. Native Americans wasted nothing!
awesome
okay, first of all he picked ONE specific tree (either it's mature enough to be cut down or else), and he made it by himself oh and he uses his own product. Not like you who just whining on trees being cut down and buying stuff from store and claiming that you try saving the earth.
Wow
Amazing Video! Was that an Oak tree ?
black ash
Best thing can happen to a tree .
I LOVE U NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICCCCC
what kind of wood is this?
black ash or some call brown ash. Grows in wet areas. In central NY state the ash borer is killing them like crazy. Around Rochester ever swampy area is full of dead trees. Those are the ones those baskets are made from. Tool handles used to be until fiberglass replaced and destroyed the industry.
I badly want to learn that craft.
nice
How much?
In Indonesia we made the basket from bamboo or rotan (idk the english)
Omg upload
WOW!!Awesome
Women back then: Be impressed with a basket made outta tree. 👩🏻
Women now: Kill a crocodile and make me a Gucci bag to prove your love! ❤️ 🌚
"Why did you kill only one crocodile? Don't you love me? I wanted all crocodiles dead."
A derivitive of primitive technology
Now, I wonder how they make them nowadays
That's how they're still made. Some pack basket are made with sawn maple. Highly inferior.
You literally can’t post anything on RUclips without people getting triggered lmao
It's sad
Your comment triggers me
Totigerus your millennium attitude is going to ruin you life.
Mark Romero this also triggers me
I find this very impressive!! But i also can’t help but feel a little sad about the tree.......
@@timothylongmore7325 wow someone actually took a small amount of time out of their day to reply to a comment i made 2 years ago i feel so special
@@klcg.6078 I apoligize. One should feel something when they cut a tree. It did go to a good use and native people treat their land with a lot more love than most people on this planet do. Again , I'm sorry for my snarky reply.
@@timothylongmore7325 you’re forgiven, it takes a lot of effort to apologize for something!! Thank you for apologizing!! Hope you have a good day!!
Is this also an ASMR video?
how many baskets per tree? please dont tell me just the one?
No, but they made the video seem to be the story of one basket.
Probably a dozen or more from the one log. No doubt he got two more logs out of that pole. Nothing is wasted. These trees also get a lot bigger. This was just a demonstration I'm sure. The one stick he pounded was almost enough for one basket.
Please tell me he used the rest of that tree as well.
yes dear they don't waste things. That tree probably made a hundred baskets that will be treasured by their owners for generations. Native ( and other smart people) don't usually waste anything. Natives ( and smart people) gives thanks for things they take from nature and don't destroy were they live ( earth), like most modern people do.
Les mains qui l'a orfèvrerie
He cute soo fine finesse ?
Step One: Buy all of the tools. Should take a month and the rest of your savings
saw and a sledge hammer or an axe. He runs a basket shop business and does it for a living.
3:20
5:18
I suppose I exaggerated, but this isn't something you can just go out and do
@@littlebitfix4511 I did, but I already had most anyway. I also live where the tree grows and like learning new skills. Believe me, you do not want to try earn a living doing this. An adirondack pack takes about a week to make by hand. They should bring 3-400 dollars. You can't get $150. I know you were just tryin to be funny.
Thx for understanding, sorry for any insensitivity
mr sniffs approves
that tree just splits itself????
after you used the shaving horse to make that plank, he would put in water and hit it until the age rings split. then use a drawknife to split into strips.
No. Pound on the log is the traditional way. He splits out a billet ( stick) Shaves it down with drawknife ( optional) . You can shave it down with a regular knife then pound it with a hammer. The video and the power hammer only shows the last part of the process. It takes about an hour of pounding by hand to separate one stick. He's using a blacksmiths power hammer.
Nyapo ragae pring utowo rotan bro.. Lueh murah ketok e, takok tok aku. Ora kok protes..
UPLOADDDD
Traditional woven basket - using machines and saws and axes nails and hammers lmao Also, the video hardly shows you anything about how it's made just lots of close up shots with little content.
I would have gotten so many splinters in my skin :(
Yeah my stuff here in Australia is made in China :(
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I'll give you 3.50
Well. Alright.
O:
Save trees and save jungles
yeah thanks looks beautiful have no clue how to do it, stupid and not teaching anyone anything.
The primitive technology guy really let himself go.
One whole tree, one basket¿🧐
no one stick from that log
That was a long straight tree you could have done a lot more than chop it up and small pieces
You're ignorant lol
Too much!!!
Come to think of it, they don't use machines or nails either. Obviously I misunderstood the use of the word, "traditional. Lol
Did anyone notice??? How much wood he used, but whole of the tree was cut down😭😭😭
90% of the tree is literally wasted wtf
Max Sofronov -- they only showed him making one! If I know my Native Americans - they waste nothing!
You have to cut down a tree to make that basket...? Hmmm.! Can’t you use fallen branches and leave instead....?
Taeeun Kang No there's a reason why he smelled the tree first
In order to have soft wood, you have to cut down a living tree. Fallen branches are dead wood and isn't soft, pliable and strong as living wood. I prefer seeing a tree being cut down to become a basket instead of being decorated for a month and thrown away after (ie Christmas tree).
Willow Whiteraven My point was is it necessary to make that wooden basket. We no longer live in the primitive world..! There are ton of materials can be recycled..!
Usually they are sold as decoration, tourists love to buy them as they are made by First Nations. Do we really need decoration in our homes ? No. But I'm sure nobody wants to have empty walls and no object for decoration. As for how they are made, it's part of their tradition. First Nation have lost a lot of their cultural heritage due to colonization and assimilation. If nobody continue that tradition, it will disappear. They aren't that many basket maker left, so don't worry, there aren't that many tree cut down for that.
Careful and thoughtful harvesting allows for a far more healthy forest. In a dense stand of wood such as where the tree was taken, most trees will die. They become tall and spindly trying to reach the sun and fight for limited nutrients eventually dying and falling to the forest floor. This is a healthy harvest for the trees.
Killing tree.
Cutting a grown tree just to make something not useful these days just why don’t tell me it’s a hoppy
Sam K .....he’s not clearing the forest, densely packed forests actual benefit from cutting down or relocating younger trees, they end up dying anyway while taking nutrients from more mature ones who have a higher oxygen out put.
Sam K “I’m going to be outraged Because that’s who I am as a person” is the vibe you seem to be putting out to the world.
sam k you arent impressing anyone with your outrage at a skilled craftsman displaying his skilled craft lol
its a Hoppy lmao
So what about Christmas trees ? They are cut down just to be decorated and thrown away.
Don,t cut the trees
Huh, what "traditional" style is this, I wonder? None of the tribes I am familiar with would have actually harvested the tree to make a basket. Bark, or water reeds as far as I've ever seen. What tribe is this? And don't yell at me about how harvesting a few is good for the forest, I know that. I'm am simply saying that I, in my limited knowledge,have not seen the whole tree used.
Well I guess you aren't "familiar" with all the tribes now are you. I suggest you review the traditional baskets made by many of our southwestern Native People as well as our Eastern Native people.
Hhhmmmm...I believe I said that. Trolls. Lol
It's a style used by the Micmacs , like Stephan Jerome as well as many north eastern tribes . The trappers adopted the style and used them as burden baskets because of there durabilty. The tree used in the video was probably for demonstration purposes and was probably totally used. I would guess that log would yield about 8-12 baskets of the size he made. We have have no shortage or black here in the north east (yet). The emerald ash borer has just arrived and is laying waste to whole forests. Now that's sad. Natural , but sad. Cheers
Ridiculous, put down tree just to make an ugly basquet ?
*facepalm*
It’s a young tree that would have died anyway in such a dense forest, the forest actually benefits from cutting down younger trees that are in dense areas.
I dont agree, he could have found a tree that is down, it is a young tree, can you imagine if everybody decides to put down trees to make basquets ? non sense destruction .
I hope you are against cutting trees for Christmas too (even if they are farmed for it). At least that tree was turned into a basket and not just decorated and thrown away when it died.
Vanna Rocha it's LEGACY , that's the point of this video. This has been past on from generation to generation. I case you were born yesterday, just about 100 years ago we were gathering food in baskets and hunting for meals. No Wal-Mart's or Mc fat burgers. Use some common sense ! Frickin Millennium's
The craft is amazing. But the filming style was shot way too close and a little off from the center of the action. It's difficult to see what his hands are actually doing.
He's got other videos he did himself. He works fast. Showing off seems like. There are more vids on this subject on youtube. Look for pounding black ash , adirondack baskets etc.
good