Sandi Yates and Eileen Murphy. Sandi is holding her spruce root basket. Photo courtesy of Eileen Murphy.  In this episode we talk with ment...

The weaving of traditional baskets using spruce roots is an Indigenous artform with a long and complex history. Renowned Mik'maq basket ...

I've been scanning some photos from North River and Halls Town in Conception Bay, as part of an ongoing project we have there. If you ar...

I recently came across the following photographs in Memorial University's Digital Archives Initiative (DAI).  The first two are from Mus...

Participants of the last presentation of the day. Today’s Tuesday Folklore photos come from the Girl Guides of Canada’s 2016 National Tr...

Photo: A round spruce root basket with diamond wrapped ears made by Anthony White of Bay St. George. Constructed c1960. I got a call t...

A woven basket owned by Neal Wells of Grand Falls-Windsor A woven basket owned by Patricia Mchuge of Grand Falls-Windsor Last year t...

I couple days ago, I got an email from Leslie (Les) Winsor, of Mount Pearl. He had seen some of my posts about the basket research we we...

This year, we've been doing some research on basket making traditions, and yesterday, I got an email from Dan Mercer, who was looking ...

In the heritage community in Newfoundland and Labrador, the general consensus is as follows: Vinyl Bad; Wood Good. We've seen a lot o...

"You would never go into another man's lunch basket." It was a refrain we've heard more than a few times over the past f...

One of the interesting parts of the research we've been doing on baskets and basket makers is getting to know more about the real men...

"I think with me, there is a spirit within me that makes the basket. I always told my mother that. It's like I can ...

A photo of Mr. Roy Oke, retired millwright, Corner Brook, circa 1980s, with his mill lunch basket under his arm, carried the traditiona...

Yesterday was the first of our two "Tea 'n' Baskets" events, where we invite owners of traditional mill lunch baskets t...

Today, Sunday, March 18th from 1-3pm at the Glynmill Inn , Corner Brook, HFNL will be hosting an event called “Tea ‘n’ Baskets”. This ...

Day 2 - Corner Brook We had a day full of baskets and interviews. Nicole Penney did two interviews in the morning, one on a fabulou...

In the March 2012 edition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Update for Newfoundland and Labrador: we announce workshops on oral histor...

Saturday, March 17, 2012 7pm Arts and Science building, Room 379 Grenfell College In Newfoundland and Labrador traditionally-made ba...

In Newfoundland and Labrador traditionally-made baskets came in many shapes, sizes and styles and can be crafted from a variety of materi...