A one-page article from the Minnesota Weaver on how a basket's color, texture, design, shape, and weave carry meaning about its maker, with quotations from Sandra Corrie Newman and George Wharton James on Native American basketry. It is followed by a basketry reading list of about 19 books, mostly on Native American basketry (Pomo, Anasazi, California Indian) plus several on technique and basketry as textile art.