Tlingit Basket, Smoke/Midnight Red Indigenous artwork on the Pacific

Indigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols

The designs can be quite dramatic

food plays a central role as the amount and variety contribute to the prestige of the host family

Future commissions of this type could be completed with a different artist

'" - Robert Davidson

Tlingit Basket, Smoke/Midnight Red Indigenous artwork on the PacificTlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He references objects like the traditional spruce root baskets from his Tlingit heritage in his glasswork as a way of rethinking and re contextualizing the item. In doing so he imbues these pieces with the elegance and beauty that the traditional woven forms are so well known for.