Other Native American Baskets
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Cradle Boards are a traditional carrier for the babies. The young are swaddled in a blanket and tucked down into the Deer skin pouch and bound up tightly before being put on the back of the Mother. Different tribes make different variations of this same idea.
Nootka natives live in NW Canada. They used a lot of cedar in the construction of their dwellings and crafts. This match stick holder was probably woven as a souvenir. What a great collectors item, the novelty alone is worth having it.
In excellent condition, this Yokuts cooking basket (c. 1900) has a diameter of 20 inches and is 16 inches deep. The foundation is probably bundled deer grass stalks which are coiled with split sedge root. The Yokuts are a group of linguistically related people who lived in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Two or three red hot stones were set inside the basket and constantly moved around within boiling water and leached acorn dough.
