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Selling BasketryBasketry is an important source of income for many Native weavers. The best weavers are able to support themselves entirely from the sale of their baskets. In the 1800s, some Native groups specialized in supplying their neighbors with baskets. The Thompson River people (Nlaka'pamux) traded baskets for hides or horses. One large burden basket was worth one buffalo-skin robe, while two large baskets bought an already-trained horse. By the end of the 1800s, weavers began to produce baskets made specifically for sale to outsiders. Because these baskets did not need to be functional, weavers experimented with fanciful formslike teapot shapesthat catered to the tastes of tourists. click on a thumbnail image for a larger photo
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Miniature BasketsIn the early 1900s, avid basketry collectors competed to acquire the smallest and the largest baskets. A thriving trade in miniature baskets developed from this demand. Notice the extreme virtuosity of the weavers (see also "Studying Baskets" for examples of the largest baskets).
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