Who is the weaver?

Tlingit women did not just make a basket to make a basket. They did need the baskets to use, but you can identify a person from their basket(s). A good weaver could look at a basket and tell you what region it is from or tell you if they have seen a basket from the same weaver by the design and/or the weaving or the basket. I do not know how they can tell but it is from the years and years of practice and the passing down of information from generation to generation.  No two baskets are the same.

These three baskets were made in Hoonah, Alaska. To me they don’t look similar but a good weaver could tell you what region they are from.