Jill R. Chancey, Editor

This book beautifully displays the basket collection of Catherine Marshall Gardiner of Laurel, Mississippi, one of the premier collectors of her time. In 1923, when she donated her collection of almost five hundred baskets to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, she had amassed one of the most representative collections of North American Native basketry in the southeastern United States. New research on the collector and the collection are presented in essays covering each major North American culture region. More than two hundred archival and contemporary photographs tell the story of this important collection.