page_title: Quinault people
section_title: Basketry and weaving
hierarchical_section_title: Quinault people / Culture / Basketry and weaving
caption_attribution_description: English: Quinault baksets. Original title "Quinault handiwork".
context_page_description: The Quinault are a group of Native American peoples from western Washington in the United States. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people and are enrolled in the federally recognized Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation.
  The name "Quinault" is an anglicized version of kʷínayɬ, the name of a village at the mouth of the Quinault River, today called Taholah. The river, village, and people were given the anglicized name Quinault in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley.
context_section_description: The Quinault people have been noted basket makers and weavers. Baskets were made from locally available materials such as reeds and grasses, spruce, maple and red cedar, and in many styles suited to the task at hand. For instance, burden baskets made for gathering oysters and other shellfish had an open weave to allow for drainage, and were made from water resistant materials like cedar bark. Archaeology has revealed some of the ways basketmaking evolved over time, and the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, about 40 miles (64 km) up the Pacific coast from the present-day Quinault reservation, has been an invaluable site that preserved objects subject to decay, such as baskets and blankets, in a mudslide.
  Quinault basket artifacts are in many museums in the Northwest and around the world. The following were notable basket weavers of the Quinault prior to 1960.
  Anna Black of Queets
  Beatrice Black b. 1886 of Taholah
  Irene Charley (Shale) b. 1908 of Taholah
  Lena Hebalakp Charley (Bastian) b. 1877 of Taholah
  Maggie Charley (Kalama) b. 1870 of Hoquiam
  Mary Chips b. 1857 of Puyallup and La Push
  Emily Cleveland b. 1929 of Queets
  Lilly Cliff or Clip (Ford) b. 1865 of Neah Bay
  Agnes Garfield (Hudson) b. 1894 of Taholah
  Frances James (Bowechop) (1905-1972) of Neah Bay
  Maggie James (Wain)(Kelly) b. 1886 of Queets
  Anna Jette (Jackson) b. 1889 of Taholah
  Hannah Mason (Bowechop)(Saux)(Payne) (1895-1971) of Taholah
  Blanche Mowitch b. 1908 of Quinault
  Laura Obi (Sam) b. 1864 of Queets
  Charlotte Penn (Kalama) (1924-2010) of Queets
  Hazel Purdy (Underwood) b. 1908 of Taholah
  Blanche Lila Shale (McBride) b. 1925 of Taholah
  Ella Shileba Hobucket  Wa-uc or Wa-bas-tub b. 1865 of La Push
  Sarah or Sally Shileba/Shalber Legg (James)(Mason)(Freeman) b. 1865 of Lake Quinault and Taholah, wife of Chief Taholah
  Joyce Simmons (Cheeka) b. 1901 of Neah Bay
  Ida Strom (Law) b. 1898 of Taholah
  Alice Taholah (Jackson) b. 1853 of Taholah, daughter of Chief Taholah
  Maggie Ward (Harlow) Tso-ba-dook b. 1886 of Queets
  Annie Williams (Waukenas) (1859-1951) of Taholah
  Leta Williams (Shale) (Sailto) b. 1928 of Queets
  There has been some attempt to preserve traditional basketmaking techniques on the Quinault reservation, though the style has been intermixed with that of other tribes.
caption: Photograph of Quinault baskets by Edward S. Curtis c. 1912
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