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"Wash~us~etan-way" weaving a large storage bag, c. 1907. It may have taken a woman two to three months to complete a bag of this size. Photo by Fanny van Duyn, Tygh Valley, Oregon. Gary Goodwin Collection, Maryhill Museum of Art cat. no. 1991.06.01.

Mary Schlick, Sharon Dean, and Jack Glazier speaking to one another during a break in the symposium

headshot of Steven L. Grafe

Participants in the symposium eating donuts and drinking coffee; Julia MacKesson, Liz Atack, and Sara Mullen pictured

Repatriated bag among other examples of Nez Perce flat twined weaving at the symposium

This bag from the Spalding-Allen collection is the earliest known and most securely dated example of the type of flat twined storage bag that the Nez Perce call “qaqape” (pronounced kaKA’peh). Consistent with other early twined bags, this bag has a…