Situated on the western edge of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo mountain ranges, Owens Valley has been home for thousands of years to the Owens Valley Paiute and their southern neighbors, the Panamint Shoshone. The willow baskets both groups created are noteworthy for their complex construction and durability, and their materials and designs reflected available resources as well as the seminomadic existence that characterized life in the Great Basin for generations.
Since the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of non-Indians into the Valley, the baskets have changed. Weaving a Legacy places those changes in the context of the region’s dramatic social history. In addition, the volume closely examines basketry techniques and technology, historic weavers and their lineages, contemporary weavers, and basket collectors.
The text is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs of people, landscapes, and baskets. Among the legacies of these baskets are the stories they evoke, many of which the authors recount in this beautiful work.

Weaving A Legacy - Cloth: Indian Baskets and the People of Owens Valley, California

History

Bates, Craig D.

Dean, Sharon

Finger, Judith W

Ratcheson, Peggy S

Daus, Ellen F

Americas

University of Utah Press

Situated on the western edge of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo mountain ranges, Owens Valley has been home for thousands of years to the Owens Valley Paiute and their southern neighbors, the Panamint Shoshone. The willow baskets both groups created are noteworthy for their complex construction and durability, and their materials and designs reflected available resources as well as the seminomadic existence that characterized life in the Great Basin for generations.
Since the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of non-Indians into the Valley, the baskets have changed. Weaving a Legacy places those changes in the context of the region’s dramatic social history. In addition, the volume closely examines basketry techniques and technology, historic weavers and their lineages, contemporary weavers, and basket collectors.
The text is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs of people, landscapes, and baskets. Among the legacies of these baskets are the stories they evoke, many of which the authors recount in this beautiful work.

Weaving A Legacy - Paper: Indian Baskets and the People of Owens Valley, California

Despite the disruption and near total destruction of the native lifestyle, basketry survived in almost every locality. The need for baskets in preparing native foodstuffs - an important part of the elderly Miwok people's diet into the 1930s - and the ready sale of baskets to non-Indians appear to be major factors in the survival of basket making skills. In the early years of the 20th century found a ready market and often were made on special order for Anglo patrons. Subsequently, in an effort to "forget about" being Indian, relatively few young women learned to weave baskets. Conversations with Miwok elders today indicate that few, if any, young women learned to weave after 1930.

Coiled Basketry of the Sierra Miwok: A Study of Regional Variation (San Diego Museum Papers)

Arts & Photography

San Diego Museum of Man

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Tradition and Innovation: A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite-Mono Lake Area

Lee, Martha J.

Yosemite Assn

Legends of the Yosemite Miwok

Literature & Fiction

Medley, Steven P.

LaPena, Frank

United States

Treasures from Native California: The Legacy of Russian Exploration

The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English language volume. Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and cultures of Native Californians.

Hudson, Travis

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Routledge

The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English language volume. Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and cultures of Native Californians.

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