There are several rain and cloud symbols located above the four Kachina figures woven into the basket design. Below the clan symbol is a kiva design with clouds, or smoke, used by the Kachina men to communicate with the spirits. Although basket making is not practiced everywhere in the Arctic, the people living along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay have a history of basket making that goes back to the old days. Basket making techniques used by the Inuit are best described as the sewing of grass coils. Strands of grass are stitched tightly around a coil foundation which must be kept at an even thickness.
Typical baskets have tight fitting lids with a carving lashed to the center to form a handle.
Tradition dictates that carvings of soapstone, ivory, bone or antler be made by the basket maker's husband. Lime grass basket pictured by Jenny Inukpak. This is the only fully quilled box made by Yvonne in this shape that we have seen. The making of birch bark boxes decorated with porcupine quills has been Yvonne Keshick-Walker's life work. Yvonne Walker Keshick is a contemporary master of this centuries old North American Indian craft.