Rooted in Place: California Native Art

One piece here is a full-size lawn chair with its webbing replaced by strips of loom beadwork. Hupa artist Brittany Britton copied the chair her great-grandmother took to World Renewal Ceremonies in the Hoopa Valley, where coffee cans carry embers and everyday things become part of the ritual.

The show fills Gallery 1 of the de Young's rebuilt Arts of Indigenous America suite and covers the Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, Tsnungwe and Wiyot peoples of northwestern California. You walk in between goldenrod walls, picked to match Wiyot land, and find Elizabeth Hickox's century-old gift basket near loans and commissions from living artists.

KQED's critic found the new galleries uncluttered: "It's a pleasure to linger." Britton wants later rotations to go further, with "space for things that are precious and kind of ugly." It's a single room. General admission covers it: $25, free for 17 and under.