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"Yokuts Basketry - Function and Beauty: Stalks and roots of bunchgrass, redbud, sedges and bracken fern provided the raw materials for a variety of useful and beautiful baskets - Yokuts women provided the skill and artistry needed to craft them. The shape and size of these sturdy baskets depended on their purpose. Yokuts basketmakers carefully coiled or twined plant fibers into water bottles, cooking vessels, carrying baskets, seed-beaters, storage containers, winnowing trays, gambling trays, and baby carriers. Bands of red and dark brown designs appear on many of the finely made examples. Basketry continues to thrive in the current Yokuts culture. Modern basketmakers gather the plant materials they need and weave in the same fashion as their ancestors. Their beautiful baskets are highly prized by collectors today. 'When Chu-chan'-cun left she knew her mother liked nice baskets, so she made each basket as nice as she could and worked into it a pretty design. As she went along she left these baskets behind, hoping her mother would find her. In this way there came into being all of the designs now found on Yokuts baskets: the wild goose, the caterpillar, the pine tree, lightning, the king snake, the arrow head, and many others.' story told by I'-chow last Chief of the Wuk-chum'-nee Yokuts to Frank F Latta, c 1934" ~ Information sign at the Philip S. Raine rest stop outside of Fresno, California. Yokuts: www.technogypsie.com/science/?p=2497. Yokuts Basketry:http://www.technogypsie.com/science/?p=2549. Baskets and Basketry: www.technogypsie.com/science/?p=1685. Philip S. Raine Rest Area outside of Fresno California: www.technogypsie.com/reviews/?p=20365. California's Central Valley. Friday, 3 April 2015. Exploring the Inland Empire: California. Expedition to Southern California: "Escape to L.A." and "Escape from Ashland". March-April 2015. Photos copyright 2015 all rights reserved: Technogypsie Productions, www.technogypsie.com/photography - photos by Leaf McGowan, Tom Baurley, Etain De Danann, Eadaoin Bineid Baurley. To follow the travel tales visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/ and www.technogypsie.com/reviews/ . To read about this day's tales, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/?p=13239. More about the Central Valley, visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/?p=20369.

Taken on: April 3, 2015

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