Home and Homelands Exhibition: Work

Anna Pike, a Tsimshian woman from Alaska, married a U.S. soldier on San Juan Island in 1861, when such unions were banned. The farmhouse and elm tree she tended still stand, five generations on.

Celiast Smith lived through the Pacific Northwest's whole 19th-century upheaval — from Lewis and Clark's visit to American settlement. A shellfish basket, a pierced thimble and a wedding plate trace her life.

In 1829 a missionary spent a night at the Kawaihae home of John Young and Kaʻōanaʻeha. She disliked his Western-style house but found peace in her traditional grass hale, a glimpse of Hawaiian women's power.