Tlingit master weaver Jennie Thlunaut created this basket—her
last—when she was 95. Spruce root baskets, made by Tlingit women, are woven from long roots gathered in spring, boiled, split, and cured, then twined with dyed grass stems for decoration. Thlunaut’s handwritten record of a story told on one of her blankets is shown with her and many others’ weavings at the Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center in Haines, Alaska. (907) 766-2366, www.sheldonmuseum.org.