The bear grass is natural.

In the Spirit of the Ancestors-The Owl represents one of Jan Criswell's Haida crests. Janice teaches basketry at the University of Alaska Southeast, and is on the Advisory Board of the Bill Holm Center at the Burke Museum. The painting is by her husband, Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections at the Alaska State Museum.

Haida spruce root hat made by Isabel Rorick, the daughter of Primrose Adams. She learned to weave from her grandmother, Selina Peratrovich. Isabel recently traveled to several museum collections, including the Burke Museum, to study Haida basketry. According to Isabel Rorick, this hat was made in the style of Mrs. Tom Price. Burke Museum cat. no. 2001-8/1, puchased with funds donated by Lawrence Christian.

The paint is green.

S'abadeb-Seattle Art Museum This unusual shaped basketry hat was a commission by the Burke Museum, which asked Karen Skyki Reed to replicate an ancient hat unearthed at Wapato Creek in 1976. Reed's grandmother had lived at Wapato Creek in Tacoma, Washington, which was an ancestral home of the Puyallup Tribe. A gifted basket maker and apprentice of Gerald Bruce Subiyay Miller, Reed noted that the old hat was so well preserved that she could puzzle out how the inner hat was made and attached to the outer twined hat. Contemporary artists revel in the opportunity to re-create older artifacts to determine how they were made and how their forms evolved over time. Purchased with funds donated by Lawrence Christian.

The linen is blue. The bead is blue.

The dye is black.

The paint is black, red, and green.

The cedar bark is red. The cedar bark is yellow. The dye is blue.

The spruce root is natural. The spruce root is brown. The paint is red and black.