Yokuts Baskets: Links


Links


		Precious Cargo: California Indian Cradle Baskets and Childbirth Traditions
		A great book on the history of the California Indian cradle basket (cradleboard). See page 73-75 for the cradleboard I made for the Marin Museum of the American Indian.
		California Indian Basketweavers Association
		CIBA’s mission is to preserve, promote, and perpetuate California Indian basket weaving traditions while providing a healthy physical, social, spiritual, and economic environment for basketweavers.
		Smithsonian Institute
		Links to their American Indian Museum, events, exhibition and demonstrations.
		M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park
		I was a demonstrating weaver for the grand opening of the "Art of the America's" wing of the museum.
		Marin Museum of the American Indian
		The Marin Museum purchase one of my cradeboards. See the cradleboard page for more information.
		The Hemmer Collection
		A native California family's legacy of exceptional Western Mono Indian baskets.
		Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau
		Guide to one of America's most renowned parks, Yosemite National Park, and the surrounding area.
		Sierra Mono Museum
		The North Fork Mono Tribe is the original inhabitants of the Sierras. The tribe consists of two clans represented by the golden eagle and the coyote. The old way of life for the Mono is exhibited through fishing, hunting, acorn gathering, cooking, healing, basket making, games and ceremonies at the Sierra Mono Museum.
		Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
		The Museum features eleven exhibit halls focusing on regional natural history, including Native American Indians.
		Yokuts Bibliography
		The Yokuts are a language family with as many as 50 separate hunter/gatherer tribes, and numerous dialects. They occupied the entire San Joaquin Valley of central California from the mouth of the San Joaquin River to the foot of the Tehachapis, and the adjacent lower slopes or foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from the Fresno River south.
		Food of the Yokuts Indians
		Although the Yowlumne and Tulumne Yokuts fished the rivers and lakes of the San Joaquin Valley all year long, and hunted deer, rabbit, raccoons and other game in the marshes and grass lands, most of their food came from plants, particularly acorns, nuts, seeds, roots, and berries.