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MAKAH
BASKETS
How
Old Is that Makah Basket?
In
the 1860s, the Makah people at Neah Bay developed a cottage industry
producing trinket baskets. Through the 1930s, they wove thousands
of small colorful baskets for sale. Eventually, plaited bases
and rims and commercially available raffia replaced the more labor-intensive
fully twined bases and twisted cedar bark.
By
looking at the materials and techniques used in hundreds of baskets,
exhibit co-curators Rebecca Andrews and John Putnam have proposed
these three phases for dating early Makah baskets.
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on a thumbnail image for a larger photo
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I (1860s)
Rims and bases twined
warps and wefts of cedar bark
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Makah
basket; Gift of Caroline McGilvra Burke, 1944; No. 1-456
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Makah
basket; Gift of the Young Naturalists' Society, 1904; No.
4801
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Makah
basket; Gift of the Young Naturalists' Society, 1904; No.
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Makah
basket; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Ward Beecher, 1993;
No. 1993-81/ 10 |
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Makah
basket; Gift of Mrs. L. O. Paris, 1947; No. 1-788
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II (transitional, 1870s-1880s)
Rims with lip seat and cedar bark strip
Bases with areas of plaiting
Materials
include sedge or cotton string
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Makah
basket; Exchange from the Museum of History and Industry,
1980; No. 2.5E1003
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Makah
basket; Gift of Emmy S. Hartman, 1976; No. 2.5E625
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Makah
basket; Gift of Mrs. L. X. Coder, in memory of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Grahame, 1952; No. 1-1083
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III (1890s-1930s)
Bases plaited
Materials include raffia as weft
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Makah
basket; Exchange from the Museum of History and Industry,
1980; No. 2.5E990
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Makah
basket; Exchange from the Museum of History and Industry,
1980; No. 2.5E1110
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Makah
basket; Exchange from the Museum of History and Industry,
1980; No. 2.5E1206
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Makah
basket; Gift of Margaret Grinnell Anderson, 1991;
No. 1991-58/6
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Makah
basket; Gift of Dorothy Galletly, 1986; No. 2.5E1662
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All material ©Burke Museum of Natural
History and Culture, 2001
theburke@u.washington.edu
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