“It’s not right for the rest of us to tell our basket weavers how to weave their baskets,” he said. For Horton, the professor, Keyser’s story is important to understanding her baskets, if not in the way the Cohns intended. Image Abe Cohn outside of his Emporium in Carson City, Nev., in 1923, holding two of Louisa Keyser’s baskets. Another, titled “Brotherhood of Men,” was the one the Ellis Gallery sold in 2007 for $1.2 million. Then as now, the degikup evident in four of the show’s baskets is a source of much of the enthusiasm around them.

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Persons: Herman Fillmore, “ It’s, ”, Horton, Abe Cohn, Louisa Keyser’s, Donald Ellis, Ellis, Keyser, “ Organizations: of, Ellis Locations: Washoe Tribe, Nevada, California, Washoe, Carson City, Nev, “