But her fingers were under the perfect control of a remarkably artistic brain.

She was not merely an artist but a genius.

She saw exquisite baskets in her dreams, and had the patience, persistence and determination to keep on weaving until she was able to reproduce them in actuality.

She also was possessed by an indomitable resolution to be the maker of the finest baskets of the Washoe tribe.

While she was still a young woman she gained the goal of her ambition, and it was just about this time that she offered one of her baskets to Mr.Cohn.
He saw it was an excellent basket, that the shape was perfect, the color-harmony superior to any he had seen before, the stitch small, fine, and even, the weave generally perfect, the design original and worked out with artistic ability.