Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Mono Lake & Miwok Paiute Indians...The Mono Paiute territory stretches from the Eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevadas to the boarder between California and Nevada. It lies directly east from Stockton, California.
The Paiute are experts at making twined baskets and are well known for their utilitarian style. The traditional designs seem to be horizontal and/or vertical geometric motifs of a single color on a white background.
The Miwok people were originally from the southern California area, living close to the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. The Paiute people lived in the southwestern portion of the United States, spread throughout northwest Arizona, southern Utah, southern Nevada, and southeast California.
Miwok Paiute basketry was often made using coiling and open work techniques.
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A very fine and well-woven Paiute Yosemite Field Days basket
Item#: 1839
This polychrome Paiute Yosemite Field Days basket is made of split sedge root (buff), dyed bracken root (black), split winter redbud shoots (reddish), and willow shoots (foundation). It is fine woven with 30 SPI and 7 CPI
Circa: 1929
Diameter: 8 1/2in
Height: 5in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute polychrome coiled basket by Maria Harry
Item#: 5014-70
Decoration is red and black triangles arranged in "V" form with other red and black patterns. The basket is finely stitched 20SPI and 7CPI. Old basket tag 12E.
Weaver: Maria Harry, Bodie CA
Diameter: 11in
Height: 5 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Large and very fine Piaute basket
Item#: 1852
The basket is decorated with six rows of 300 arrowheads. The well-woven basket has materials of split sedge root (buff), dyed bracken root (black), and willow shoots (foundation).
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 9 1/2in
Height: 6 1/4in
SPI 24
CPI 8
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Fine Paiute degikup polychrome basket
Item#: 5012-6
This Paiute degikup-shaped polychrome basket is finely woven with 28 stitches per inch
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 5 1/4in
Height: 3in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Miwok Paiute bottleneck by Lucy Telles
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A large Mono Lake Paiute basket by Tina Charlie
Item#: 5015-59
Beautifully woven with willow, sedge, brackenfern, and redbud.
Circa:1930
Diameter: 16 1/2in
Height: 8in
Tina Charlie was a regular competitor in the Yosemite Field Days basket competition and others around California. One of the foremost Mono Lake Paiute weavers, Tina Charlie (1869?1962) is known for weaving large and fancy baskets as well as producing excellent traditional and utilitarian baskets. The beautiful basket featured here is displayed in front of Tina in the photo shown.
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute coiled basket
Item#: 5095
Neatly woven and ornamented with vertical designs of nine arrows, with three stacked arrowheads between each arrow.
Circa: 1910
Diameter 7 1/2in
Height: 5 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute bottleneck olla basket
Item#: 2071
Circa: 1900
Diameter: 8in
Height: 4in
From the Phoebe Hearst - John Muir Collection
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Mono Lake Paiute bowl
Item#: 35281
decorated in redbud and bracken fern.
Circa: 1910
Diameter: 7in
Height: 3 3/4in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute miniature burden basket
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute seed jar with horse hair handles
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Paiute seed jar with horse hair handles
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Mono winnowing baskets
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Mono seed beater
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Mono cradles
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A very fine Mono Paiute bowl
Item#: 25468
with the remains of red yarn.
SPI20 CPI12
Circa: 1900
Diameter: 8in
Height: 3in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A Mono Lake Paiute basket by Minnie Brown
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Paiute seed jar
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
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