Collection of Indian baskets. Photographer: George Fiske?, copied April 1941
Gambling basket.
Le-me feathering an arrow.
Le-me feathering an arrow.
Lucy Telles' largest basket completed in 1933. Squares are reddish, the points are black. The background is tan and light brown.
The Ellen B. Boysen basket collection.
Boysen Collection [SO-015]
Area of Regional Variation in Sierra Miwok Coiled Basketry Map. Copied April 1981 by Michael Dixon.
X baskets, except cone-shaped one, in Scwabacher collection."
Sales photo of baskets at Salter's store, Yosemite. #6 & 10 by Lucy Telles, now at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. #25, 29, 35 also by Lucy Telles. #25 in YNP Collection.
The largest basket made in Yosemite. Made by Lucy Telles, Paiute.
Copy Neg: L. Radanovich, 3/98. Cleaning baskets back of Museum. Showing part of the fine collection of Indian basketry in Yosemite Museum. Photographer: Taras (Civil Works Administration)
Paiute twined cop. Willow shoot warp, split weft. Design touched up with dye of ephedra sp. and yellow ochre. In Yosemite Collections #25,231.
Ella Cain basket collection.
Baskets for sale at Nelson Salter's Yosemite Store, Yosemite Valley. #6 and #10 by Lucy Parker Telles and in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. #25 also by her in Yosemite Collections. 329 and #35 also by her but present location unknown as of 1
Baskets for sale at Nelson Salter's Yosemite Store, Yosemite Valley. Baskets from the Washoe, Paiute, Yurok, Hupa, and Miwok groups are included. Numbers 10 and 6 by Lucy Telles and are now at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Numbers 25, 29, &
Floral arrangement by Mrs. Wm. (Etta Grace) Sell, Sr. in a Yokuts type basket. Copied from an original in YNP Collections.
Floral arrangement in Western Mono basket by Mrs. Wm. (Etta Grace) Sell, Sr. Copied from original in YNP Collection.
Floral arrangement in Miwok basket by Mrs. Wm. (Etta Grace) Sell Sr. Copied from original in YNP Collection.
Western Mono type Winnowing basket. Once owned by Lena Cox c. 1920. Materials: redbud, fern root, sedge root, sourberry. c. 1 foot length. Owned by James Cox, Tuolumne Miwuk Rancheria, Tuolumne Ca.
Miwok cradle basket (without hood) made by Sophia Thompson c. 1920. "Chapparell Sticks". Owned by James Cox. Tuolumne Mewuk Rancheria, Tuolumne, Ca.
Western Mono type Winnowing basket. Once owned 6. Lena Cox. Material: Redbud, fern root, sedge root, sourberry sticks. c. 1 foot length. Owned by James Cox, Tuolumne Mewuk Rancheria, Tuolumne, Ca.
Basket collection of Mr. & Mrs. George Fiske.
Basket collection of Mrs. Etta Grace (Wm.) Sell, Sr. Made in the Yosemite-Ahwahnee region. Photo courtesy of her daughter, Mrs. Elenor Sell Crooks. This portion of the collection was destroyed by fire.
Basket collection of Mrs. Etta Grace (Wm.) Sell, Sr. Made in the Yosemite-Ahwahnee region. Photo courtesy of her daughter, Mrs. Elenor Sell Crooks.
Floral arrangement in Miwok basket by Mrs. Wm. (Etta Grace) Sell, Sr. c. 1910. Copied from originals in YNP Collection.
Miwok type cooking basket with heavy repair. Cat. No. 24,878 (YNP Collection) on loan from the State of California., Department of Parks & Recreation. Technology is similar to same Maidu work. Horizontal band design in split red bud shoots.
Fiske's Collection. Copied by Michael Dixon, Jan. 1982.
Soap-root glue-coated burden basket. Purchased in Wawona from Suzie in 1906 by S. A. Barrett. Black bands of bracken fern root. c. 55cm. In the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, U.C.B. Cat. #1-10,239
Miniature baskets made by Julia Parker for Supt. Arnberger.
Baskets purchased with YNHA funds for the Yosemite Collection.
Maggie Howard beating grass seeds into burden basket. Probably taken during filming of movie "Yosemite Native Americans". Baskets were in Yosemite Collections (@ that time): seed beater - Miwok; burden basket-Wintu or Atsugewi - scene not accurate descript
Copy Neg: July, 1981 by Michael Dixon. Unidentified child in Paiute cradle - probably Yosemite Valley. From S. Sargent collection.
Jennie Sam, Mono Lake Paiute in Yosemite Valley. (SO-015)
Lucy Telles' big basket in plastic bubble used in display. [30" x 17 " high]
Paiute burden basket, in YNP Collections. [26 1/2" x 29" deep]
Miwok burden baskey in the YNP Collections [18x21 or 14x19]
Basket by Maggie Howards in YNP Collections. #7118
Mono Lake Paiute basket in the YNP Collections. #4890
Mono Lake Paiute basket in the YNP Collections (part of the Jorgensen collection). #4833
Tabucce (?) basket - Paiute. [20 x 8 1/2' high].
Museum storage of baskets in the YNP collection.
Yokuts bottleneck in YNP collection. #4839
Probably a Chukchansi Yokuts basket, in the YNP Collections. [18" x 7" deep]
Yokuts basket in YNP Collections. [15 1/2 x 8 1/2 deep]