Louise Hickox (Wiyot and Hupa), Lidded Container, about 1911. Plant fiber, twining, bear grass, maidenhair fern, porcupine quill, and dye; 10 x 10 in. Denver Art Museum: Native Arts acquisition funds, 1938.638A-B

diameter: 10 in, 25.4000 cm; height: 10 in, 25.4000 cm

Native Arts

Indigenous Arts of North America

This object is currently on view

Karuk artists of the 1800s wove exceptional baskets for home use as well as for ceremonial purposes. By the twentieth century community needs diminished as handwoven baskets were replaced by commercial goods. The talented mother-daughter team of Elizabeth and Louise Hickox earned widespread recognition for the baskets they created for a new market of Anglo collectors. Drawing upon their formidable skills as weavers combined with their artistic vision, they created an entirely new basket form with graceful, incurving sides topped off with dramatic elongated knobs.

Grace Nicholson [1877-1948] (Treasure House of Oriental ~Western Art Art Galleries), from Pasadena, CA, before 1938; Denver Art Museum, 1938.