Plaited Basket (leRa)
1900-30
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