A hand basket woven from flax, especially as a traditional Maori artefact.
schools should be teaching kids more than just how to weave flax baskets
Example sentencesExamples
- He commented on Maori eating customs when he sent a flax basket to his cousin in France.
- The arches represent the handles of a Maori kete (a flax basket), and symbolise the sharing of war and the benefits of peace.
- Some Maori words have been Anglicized to such an extent that they no longer look like Maori words: a kit is a flax basket (in Maori, kete).
- Both of them carried a big flax basket of ferns.
- The precious sketches and notebooks that he kept in a flax basket fell into his campfire and were burned.
- By the prophet's side was a flax basket containing some potatoes and pork.
- The design consists of a bronze representation of the handles of a flax basket.
- Just as she was about to place the floppy flower into her flax basket she was disturbed by thunderous pounding on the ground.
- The flax basket was commenced at the bottom and finished at the rim.
- They signify the long-standing relationship between the two nations in a representation of a traditional Maori flax basket.