These “jewel” baskets glimmer with objects of great worth. Clamshell disk beads, a traditional type of Pomo currency, are affixed to one basket. Both are covered with the feathers of various birds that historically shared their ancestral homeland with members of the Pomo tribe and feature in their myths. Indigenous women from California have been gathering vegetal materials like willow shoots to weave baskets for thousands of years. Pomo women are widely recognized as some of the most accomplished basket weavers in the world. While ornamented baskets were traditionally crafted as gifts, artists began making “art baskets” such as these for sale to white consumers around the turn of the 20th century.