When you visit Sanger Depot Museum’s Indian Room, you’ll find a remarkable collection of basketry from the Yokut Indians who lived in the foothills above Sanger around Squaw Valley, Wonder Valley and Dunlap, California. This collection is reputedly the finest in …

The State Parks Indian basket collection includes over 3,000 baskets that reflect the diversity and antiquity of human experience of California Indians. The baskets vary in construction and usage. Many California Indians used watertight baskets for cooking acorn soup.

Burden Basket with Jingles, Western Apache, c. 1900 Plain twined, warp and weft of sumac with black devil’s claw; buckskin; tin jingles made from baking powder cans.

probably Sierra Mewuk (Sierra Miwok) (attributed); formerly identified as "Tulare" (Yokuts) Previous owner

The Yokuts wore moccasins of deer or elk skin on their feet only when walking in rough country. Women wore a basket cap on their head when they were carrying a burden basket, which was held on by a forehead strap. Some women had tattooing on their chins. TOOLS

The bottleneck-shaped basket of the Yokuts, Shoshone, Kawaiisu and Tubatulabal may have originated as a twined basket, hung from a strap inside the home. Coiled versions of this basket became a popular genre for the art market and were made in great numbers, exhibiting the finest weaving and artistry.

Plain and 2 strand diagonal twined baskets woven both open and closed include seed beaters, sifters, parching trays, and conical burden baskets. Coiled baskets are coiled to the left ( Yokuts coil to the right ), and are on a grass foundation.

For example, the Apache continued to weave twined burden baskets after the 1930s but relatively few coiled, three rod foundation baskets and the few made were often woven with larger stitch and blockier motifs—a result of both the break in the chain of weaving knowledge and the economic shift that did not allow for the time commitment to ...

24 portraits and views of Indians of the Yokuts tribe. Data furnished by F.F. Latta attached to file card and also a copy filed with prints. Numbers on negatives 1 -24 corresponding to numbers on data sheet.

2019年11月16日 · “Yokuts baskets are distinguished by one special type, a coiled jar-like vessel with flat shoulder and constricted though sometimes flaring neck. The pattern is one or more bands in red and black, either diamonds or hexagons or alternative trapezoids.”