Elizabeth Hickox

Elizabeth Conrad Hickox (1872/5–July 19, 1947) was a Wiyot master basket weaver and was considered one of the finest basket-weavers of her time. Her baskets differ from other Lower Klamath baskets through her own unique use of shape, technique, color scheme and design.

Early life Elizbeth Conrad Hickox's birth year has been given as 1872 She tended to use the fern Adiantum aleuticum, a dark material in contrast to the porcupine quills dyed yellow with Letharia vulpina. Though Hickox was Wiyot, Nicholson marketed her baskets as "Karuk" because they lived in the Karuk area. Before Hickox met Nicholson, she had already chosen to create fine-art baskets. After Nicholson stopped purchasing baskets in 1934, Hickox continued to weave "for pleasure, utility and gift-giving."

In 2020, the art of Hickox was exhibited in the exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Death Hickox died on July 19, 1947.

Public collections Elizabeth Hickox's baskets can be found in numerous public collections, including the following: Autry Museum of the American West (Southwest Museum of Los Angeles) Denver Art Museum Field Museum of Natural History National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology