This dress display includes the two main parts of a ceremonial dress: the apron and the skirt. Below are photos of the dresses, with close ups of the intricate detailing on the dresses and historical photos of women wearing the dresses. These dresses and aprons were worn during a variety of ceremonies held by local tribes and dresses like these are still used in ceremonies today.  

The skirt goes over the apron and wraps around the back of the wearer. The skirt usually features a large amount of decorative detailing made up of both naturally made and worked materials or traded materials. In many early 1900s photos of skirts being worn by locals, photographers had their subjects reverse the dress so the elaborate detailing could be more easily seen. An example of one of these photos, by A.W Ericson, is on the right. The photo on the left is of a contestant in Hoopa's Miss Indian Princess pageant in the 1950s. You can see between the two photos the difference in how the skirt is worn, with the apron being visible on the left under the skirt (which ends near the model's left hand) while no apron is visible in the photo on the right. The photo below these two portraits is of a group of Wiyot girls in ceremonial dress from a 2004 edition of the Times Standard. It is another great representation of how skirts and aprons would be worn together to complete the dress.

This display was created on March 2, 2018

​Simply detailed tobacco baskets were used to store tobacco both at home and while traveling. Larger baskets, which held tobacco as well as a pipe, would be kept at home, while smaller baskets would be kept on one’s person as they traveled. Smaller baskets with intricate designs were also traded.

​These baskets are known as baby baskets, which were used to transport children from the time they were born until they could walk on their own.
Before being put in the basket, the baby would be wrapped up in furs or soft bark and buckskin ties secured the baby into the basket.  Depending on the size of the child, they would be completely swaddled, or they could be secured with just their arms or their arms and legs left out. The baskets were built with a second piece, an openwork dish called a breather, which went over the baby’s head to protect it from the sun, bugs and bumps. As they baby outgrew their basket, a new one was made. Outgrown baskets were hung in trees to encourage the child’s growth to be as strong as the tree.