At the turn of 19th to 20th centuries, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets and carvings specifically for the tourist trade and were experimenting with form and design. Making baskets for sale became an important income source for many Indigenous families. In this photo, two women and a boy sit by their baskets on Second Avenue, outside the Frederick & Nelson department store. The twined baskets in the image are of the style made by the Makah people of Neah Bay and the Nuu-cha-nulth (formerly called Nootka) people of Vancouver Island.

Caption information source: "Northwest Coast Basketry,” by Silvia Koros for the Burke Museum, retrieved from https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/baskets/Teachersguideforbasketry.htm.

Webster & Stevens number: 21715