AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.-The Morris Museum of Art presents By Native Hands: Native American Baskets from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, through August 13, 2006. The exhibition features sixty-five baskets from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, many of which have never been loaned before. Most of the baskets were produced between 1850 and 1910, by artisans representing more than forty North American tribes from across the continent. Basketry is an infinitely variable medium; baskets can be simple, unadorned utilitarian objects, or objects of great complexity, made to be beautiful but not used. Yet even the most practical basket, well made, can be a thing of beauty wherein form follows function, centuries of tradition influence the weaver and the materials reflect the land in which the artist is grounded. This collection features baskets of all types: from the small burden baskets of the Klikitat in the Pacific Northwest to the ornate feathered basketry of the Pomo in the Southwest, large hand-painted splint storage baskets from the Northeast, and the elaborate double-weave of richly dyed Choctaw in the Southeast.