baskets or carvings. There are no fast-food joints, no convenience stores, and the nearest Walmart is 130 miles away. Tourism isn't exactly new to Hopi. More than 50 years ago, the tribe opened ...

When appraiser Bruce Shackelford evaluated three Native American baskets brought to the San Jose ROADSHOW in August 2009, although he was unsure of their precise provenance, he instantly ...

Her work comes to the Independent 20th Century fair this week.Credit...via Donald Ellis Gallery The Native American baskets sold in the early 1900s out of Abe Cohn’s Emporium, a men’s clothing ...

That led to months of research that took him from big city museums to Native American reservations to small rural enclaves in the deep South. The result is the book “American Baskets” ($45 ...

Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native American traditions and many baskets from the American Southwest date from as early as 6,000 years ago. Originally made for utilitarian functions, such ...

“Those baskets would be worth untold amounts now. Native American basketry, as commodities, are pretty stable.” Fred Harvey sold about 25 of the baskets some years later. Since then, the ...

In the early 1900s, William and Mary Benson, a Pomo Indian couple, won renown for their exquisite Native American baskets. In 1912, they gave one of William's most masterly pieces to a trusted friend.