Basketry is arguably humankind’s oldest art form. For years, women and men of the Americas have bent, twined and coiled root, grass and branch into wonderful art. Basketry is probably the oldest and most wide-spread craft/art developed by Native Americans. Almost every tribal group made and used baskets of one kind of another. Basketry is a craft which involves weaving or twining flexible materials together to create containers which are known as baskets. Many types of materials may be used in basket weaving, although plant materials such as wicker, rushes, bark, bamboo , and grasses are probably the most common.