In October of 2020 I visited the Mills College Art Museum to research 39 baskets from Northern California Indigenous communities in the  MCAM collection . This research project was sparked when I was looking through the baskets in the  MCAM online collection  and found a few from Northern California that were almost certainly caps but had been misidentified as bowls.

 

I worked with MCAM’s Exhibitions and Collections Manager to closely examine several baskets and improve the catalog records for the basketry from this Northern California region. I also wrote about this project and my research on the MCAM blog  Glass Cube  in a piece called  Basketry is Sustenance .