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Bamboo and cane basketry is not art the Gangte tribal economies, but an intrinsic part of daily life and activity that produced essential household items like baskets to carry firewood and rice, or bamboo tubes of water, for food and grain storage, vessels, plates, furniture, containers, spoons, and fishing and hunting traps.

For the Gangte people, traditional bamboo-cane crafts have a mix of other materials and solid bamboo components along with woven bamboo and cane to create amazing products of utility and ritual use. The making of baskets is an age-old craft of leisure which was practised by the male elders of the family in the traditional rural economy of of the Gangte people of north east India and Myanmar.

Sengjing in Gangte language is a carrying basket. It is also used as a container. Every Gangte have atleast three to five seng.

Sengjing is made from bamboo strips intertwined in an artistiic design. This carrying basket is usually a large, typically tapering or conical form with straps and is used for carrying rice, vegetables and fruits

Usually used by Gangte women to carry rice and other agricultural products from their jhum lands.