Bill Tsi’li’xw James and Fran James

(American | Lummi Nation)

Lummi Nation elder and master weaver Fran James (1924-2013) and her son, artist and Lummi Nation Chief Bill Tsi’li’xw James (1944-2020), worked together to create traditional baskets and art objects. In the 1960s, just a handful of people in Washington were still weaving, notes curator Barbara Brotherton: “It was such an endangered art form. It is