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Woven Identities - Basketry Art of Western North America Cards so that walking here canAn intriguing variety of baskets from 60 tribal groups and ranging from 800 years old to contemporary examples populate the pages of Valerie K. Verzuhs new book Woven Identities: Basketry Art of Western North America (Museum of New Mexico Press). Verzuh is a curator at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, where she has worked for 13 years. These are baskets as fine art. Thats what theyve become since the 1880s, when people no longer had the time to