The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon has an exhibit of Woodlands Indian baskets.
According to PAM:
“Prior to European contact this region was home to a succession of complex agricultural societies that, in some instances, built fortified cities where thousands of people lived. With the upheaval brought about by European contact many of these societies were wiped out by war and disease. Finally, by the nineteenth century, most of the survivors were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi to make room for an expanding United States.”
According to PAM:
“She often uses non-traditional materials in her basketry to comment on indigenous life in the 21st Century.”
More American Indian museum exhibits
Indians 101: Some 1930s works by Sioux artist Oscar Howe (museum tour)
Indians 101: Modern Blackfoot ledger art (museum tour)
Indians 101: A collection of Indian baskets (museum tour)
Indians 101: Indian baskets in the Washington State History Museum (museum tour)
Indians 101: Nisqually and Puyallup baskets (photo diary)
Indians 101: Translating Traditional Basketry into Glass (Art Diary)
Indians 101: Traditional Basketry of Grays Harbor (Photo Diary)
Indians 101: Suquamish Basketry (Photo Diary)