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Introduction
Introduction
Woven objects were a part of everyday life for Taiwan's aborigines in the past. By use they can be divided into transportation baskets, hand carried baskets, storage baskets, fishing baskets, funnel shaped bamboo implements head wear and rain wear. Woven baskets were woven items used for transporting goods. In the past, the Saisiat tribe's back baskets were speaker shaped, shaped like a round tube with a round opening at the top. Using a diagonal weaving method, the weave was tight. Today, most back baskets are made using the hexagonal cage work weaving method and were developed from the Atayal back basket. Now they use plastic as the main material. The special feature of the Saisiat back basket is that it has two backstraps and the weight of the load is borne by the shoulders, different to the Atayal and Pingpu baskets that had a head strap and bore the weight on the user's head. |
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