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Navajo women made many baskets before they were rounded up by Kit Carson and forced to walk to Bosque Redondo in southern New Mexico where they were imprisoned for over four years.  After their release and return to their homestead, baskets became important because natural materials for construction were free.  They needed baskets for gathering seeds and roots, cooking, carrying burdens, parching and winnowing and for other domestic and ritual purposes. 

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