Selling baskets

This is a picture of Tlingit women selling spruce-root baskets. They are on Douglas Island by the Treadwell gold mines. Tlingit women would make the baskets in all different shapes and sizes.  They were made for many different things or to represent different things. Each woman had her own style and skill when it came to weaving. It paid off to have this skill because when the Europeans came to Alaska the women would sell or trade their baskets to the Europeans or settlers.

Wyckoff, L. (2001). Woven Worlds, pp 112. Retrieved November 12, 2010.