Hard Coil Basket

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Hard Coil Basket

1900-40

Sauk, 1865-1947

This sturdy basket could be used for food gathering or food storage. Susan Bedal, a well-known basket maker from Sauk—with easy access to river, prairie, and mountain ecosystems—would have gathered spring shoots, summer berries, and several varieties of wild roots.

- Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art, 2018

Cedar bark, cedar root, alder bark, bear grass, huckleberry

8 1/2 x 10 x 7 1/2in. (21.6 x 25.4 x 19.1cm)

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

2005.104

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

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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