Plaited Basket (leRa)

1900-30

Sauk, 1865-1947

Bedal was raised on a mixed Native/non-Native homestead started by her father, Wawetkin. Her life was a cultural bridge that spanned the two worlds of the old ways and those introduced by outsiders. She took her baskets on the train to Everett, Washington, to sell to settlers and tourists, and taught her daughters Jean and Edith the art of basketmaking.

Cedar bark, cedar root, beargrass

12 x 14 x 13 1/2in. (30.5 x 35.6 x 34.3cm)

Gift of Jean Bedal Fish and Edith Bedal, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

2005.101

Photo: Beth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, S'abadeb - The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, October 24, 2008 - January 11, 2009; Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC, November, 2009 - March, 2010

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The View From Here: The Pacific Northwest 1870-1940, July 1, 2004 - March 27, 2005

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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