From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from through the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to harvest these crops in last summer and early autumn.

These Indigenous workers gathered the cone-like fruit into handmade baskets, as shown in the photograph. Indigenous people used split cedar or spruce root to make this type of open-weave storage basket, traditionally used to store dried foods and household goods in the longhouses.

Caption information source: "Indigenous Hop Pickers in Western Washington" by Hans Zeiger, HistoryLink.org Essay 21295.