What's in a Tree?

Julie Cajune, Naida Lefthand, and Regina Sievert

Materials

• Indigenous Trees (PDF)
  Individual Photos (all JPG)
  • White Bark Pine
  • Quaking Aspen
  • Western Red Cedar
  • Cottonwood
  • Douglas Fir
  • Western Larch
  • Lodgepole Pine
  • Ponderosa Pine
• Pictures of cultural items made from trees (PDF)
  Individual Photos (all JPG)
  • Bark Covered Canoe
• Birch Bark Baskets
• Partially Completed Cedar Root Basket
• Fish Weir
• Cedar Bark Basket
• Tipi
• Photographs of Plateau Indian baskets
• Trees of the Flathead Indian Reservation document
  • Page 1 (JPG)
  • Page 2 (JPG)
• Basket template (PDF)

Websites
Riverside Municipal Museum - Provides photos of Plateau Indian baskets.   Go to "Online Exhibits" then to "Art of the Plateau Indians", then to "Interior Salish Baskets".
www.ci.riverside.ca.us/museum/