Caroline and I have this Native American woven basket that we have been filling with trinkets from our travels around the United States for years. From the bottom left: Sheep wool from Dion Terry’s grandmother’s house near Wide Ruin on the Navajo Reservation, seashells from Holly Beach in Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico, various stones, below the chip from Caesar’s Palace is a small piece of Trinitite from the home of the first nuclear explosion in New Mexico.

Just left of the Trinitite is a grey pumice-like stone, it is from the blast zone at Mount St. Helens Volcano, and on its left is a piece of petrified wood from St. Johns, Arizona. The vertebra above all of these is of some unknown animal; we think cow, from Utah. Hanging on the vertebra are keychain ornaments from the Japanese Anime – Neon Genesis Evangelion. The empty seed pods were found somewhere near Phoenix, Arizona; on its left is sage from Tsakurshovi Jewelry and Gifts at Shungopavi on Second Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.

On the right of the sage, you can see the feet of a small doll found somewhere in the west on a reservation, to the right top of the photo is an old can with a broken arrowhead on it. The crocheted round object on the top right with the red star is a Navajo Christmas ornament given to us by Dion Terry’s mom, Charity.