The exhibition,
“Made for the Trade”, curated by Ron Johnson and Coleen Kelley Marks with the assistance of
Jill Mefford and interns Katie LaSala and Stephanie Mitten, at the Trinidad Museum explores
local Native American baskets and the changes that occurred through
making them for sale and trade outside of the Indian community.
The
“Indian curio trade” redefined baskets as art. Methods of collecting
and interpreting baskets changed through commerce, anthropology,
photography and displays in a white home's “Indian corner” or “Indian
room.”
Major weavers, including Elizabeth Hickox, Nettie Ruben,
Amy Smoker and Ella Johnson, are featured as well as collectors and
interpreters Brizard & Co., Grace Nicholson, Emma Freeman, A.W.
Ericson, Alfred Kroeber and Lila O'Neale.
On view are new
basket forms of covered bottles, basket cups and saucers, pedestal and
fancy, fancy baskets, stick baskets for clothes, picnics and handle
baskets. Many new basket patterns appeared from weavers' imaginations and from designs popular in the commercial world.
Johnson
traveled to the Huntington Museum in Pasadena, Berkeley, Yale and to
western museums to research this exhibit. On the board of directors of
both Trinidad Museum and the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka, he is
an art historian with specialties in late
19th and early 20th century art history. He has taught Tribal Art and
many other art classes at Humboldt State University.
The Trinidad Museum located at
400 Janis Court, off Patrick's Point Drive, Trinidad, California is open regularly from
Thursday through Sunday, 12:30 to 4 p.m.
2012-06-15
Made for the Trade
Posted by Susi Nuss ~ Basketmaker at 12:49 PM Labels: 2012, basketry, baskets, Exhibitions, exhibits, Native American, Susi Nuss
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