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By 1900 A. Brizard was buying and selling "Hupa and Klamath Indian Baskets"
in large quantities. In a basket pamphlet published in 1900 advertising
their enterprise he states, "We deliver goods at retail prices, FREE OF
CHARGE, to any express office in the United States to which we can obtain
a through receipt from Wells Fargo & Co." Subsidiary stores for trading
and selling were established in Hoopa, Orleans, Klamath, Weitchpec, and
Blue Lake.(fig. 35) Brizard writes, "It is only since the year 1900
that any decided step was taken to place these beautiful baskets before
the collector… In point of artistic beauty in weave, pattern, and coloring
these tribes are excelled by none… We are now making every effort to interest
the capable basket weavers in their vanishing art and are gradually obtaining
from them what little is left of their rare, old work... We cannot furnish
exact duplicates as no two baskets are alike. The prices are determined
by the fineness and perfection of the weave, the pattern, and the size
of the basket…"
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