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TED BRONSTEIN
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Mattic Howeattle, from Quinault Indian Reservation, Olympic Peninsula, weaves baskets and full-skirted dolls of cedar bark, sweet grass, bull rushes collected nearby and split with her teeth
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interest in reviving the old crafts and mastering traditional techniques. As a result, a few things are now making their way into the market.

There's no price advantage in dealing directly with the Indians, so you might just as well confine yourself to reservation stores and specialty shops.

The general stores that border most reservations handle the output of the tribes. This is especially true around the Olympic Peninsula and on Vancouver Island. You can occasionally find Indian arts and crafts also in second-hand and antique shops.

The Quest Shop and Indian Craft Shoppe on Government Street in Victoria carry a selection of Indian work including masks by Mungo Martin and his assistants. The Hudson's Bay Company stores in both Victoria and Vancouver usually keep some slate-type carvings on hand as well as natural, raw wool, Cowichan sweaters.

In Seattle the Olde Curiosity Shoppe on the waterfront (next to Colman Dock) is a potpourri of tourist mementos mixed with modern Indian pieces and a few very fine old things. A small shop in the arcade of the Olympic Hotel, Dorothy's, also gathers and sells Indian-made work—mostly baskets. Owners of the Rockwell Antiques, 2512 Fairview North, make a specialty of collecting Indian baskets and curved spoons.

You can make a shopping loop of the Olympic Peninsula, stopping at the Ocean Crest Resort in Moclips where the owners sell baskets and dolls and take orders for cedar bark hates made on the Quinault Reservation.  Also, the general stores at Taholah and Queets, and Slosson's near Forks, often handle the limited production of local Indian women.

One of the prime outlets for Indians' handiwork is the Makah Arts and Crafts Shop in Neah Bay. This shop, sponsored by the tribal council, carries such things as necklaces made of the olive shells that wash up once a year on a secluded bay, cedar bark and grass baskets, and 12-inch totem poles.

Hapeman Handcrafts, on the ferry dock in Anacortes, stocks Indian-made articles from the San Juan Islands and the Swinomish Reservation in La Conner, including the carefully made sweaters knitted from handspun light wool with natural black wool designs.

Inland Indian country
Our map shows you where the reservations are located in this high dry country.

At Mabton, Washington, the Mabton Museum Shop carries a large assortment of old baskets, corn husk dolls, Indian arrowheads, and other artifacts.

In Wapato, Washington, near the Yakima Indian Reservation, Roger Ernesti runs a shop called Roger Swaps. He has locally made items of buckskin, beadwork, and corn-husk baskets.

In Union Gap, Washington, Brooks Antiques sells a variety of stone relics from the Columbia River area—fishnet sinkers, mortars, and arrowheads.

In Fort Hall Idaho, members of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe have a small shop where they take orders for purses, moccasins, gloves, and beaded jewelry.

DOLLY CONNELLY
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Indian girls from Lummi Reservation, 16 miles northwest of Bellingham, learning modern weaving techniques in Barber's Hand Weaving studio. Yardage sold in studio
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MAURICE HELLAND
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Members of the Yakima Indian Nation gather on Yakima River to catch year's supply of fish and celebrate Cow-a-wit, feast of the first salmon. Fish is threaded on stakes, roasted over wood coals
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