These Sally bags, made using traditional techniques but with waxed linen instead of dogbane (Indian hemp), were normally woven to hold varieties of wild edible roots, traditional foods collected from the land for centuries. Indeed, most viewers see the modern designs as traditional Native American basketry designs until they read the titles and begin to reorganize the designs in order to relate the images to the titles. As viewers reflect on the sources for this suite of designs, they come to appreciate […] the ironies that shape urban Indian life, in which patterns of land use and landownership make a traditional lifestyle difficult. Feddersen sees these works as personal, growing out of his own experience, and they became the source for subsequent series of glass works and prints.

— Gail Tremblay, Hallie Ford Museum of Art