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 Mono Paiute Bottleneck basket
Item#: 7029
Decorated with intricate designs on the sides, from top to bottom.
Circa: 1920
Diameter: 8 1/2in
Height: 3 1/2in
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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
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A large Mono Lake Paiute basket by Tina Charlie
Item#: 8021
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.
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A Paiute bottleneck olla basket
Item#: 2071
Circa: 1900
Diameter: 8in
Height: 4in
From the Phoebe Hearst - John Muir Collection
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A Paiute miniature burden basket
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A Paiute seed jar with horse hair handles
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Mono winnowing baskets
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Mono seed beater
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A very fine Mono Paiute bowl
Item#: 25468
with the remains of red yarn.
SPI20 CPI12
Circa: 1900
Diameter: 8in
Height: 3in
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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Paiute seed jar
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A Paiute basket with beadwork on rim
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Paiute twined olla
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A large Paiute seed jar
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Mono Lake Paiute butterfly and eagle basket
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Mono Lake Paiute basket with butterflies
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