Basket Maker

Basket Maker

n.1. Any of several early periods of Ancestral Puebloan culture characterized by the use of wicker basketry, dry farming, and coiled pottery.2. A member of the Ancestral Puebloan people who produced this culture.

Basket Maker

n (Anthropology & Ethnology) a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making

Bas′ket Mak`er

n. 1. any of a series of American Indian cultures that developed in the U.S. Southwest c100 b.c. to a.d. 700, noted esp. for their sophisticated basket weaving. 2. a member of the people who produced these cultures. [1925–30]

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Basket Maker - early Amerindians related to the Pueblo; known for skill in making basketsprimitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization