Last week, museum staff told the young mother to remove the traditional willow basket holding her son — even as she visited the museum’s exhibit showcasing a Native American artist.

Portland Art Museum’s treatment of Karuk mother who wore Indigenous baby carrier echoes past harm, mom ... She figured it was time to place him in the woven willow basket her mother created for ...

Sophie Weinstein, a citizen of the Karuk Nation, was told to remove the basket at the Portland Art Museum . ... Ms Weinstein arrived at the exhibit carrying her young child in a willow basket ...

During the first Karuk Women’s TREX, ... river willow, hazel shoots and ceanothus, which provide a basket’s structure; jet-black maidenhair fern, ...

And fire also allows willow and hazel trees to produce the straight shoots needed for baskets. “Fire is part of everything we do,” says Bill Tripp. A heavyset man with pale blue eyes and unruly ...

I've always made jewelry and a variety of other things, but she said basket weaving was something I should learn. I came up and stayed with her and got to meet Wilverna Reece, who is my basket-weaving ...