The Maidu were excellent basket weavers who utilized a wide variety of roots, bark, plant stems and leaves such as fern roots, sedge roots, willow twigs, and redbud. Circa: 1910 Diameter: …

Maidu Indian Baskets The Maidu Indians lived in the Northern Sacramento Valley, from the Sacramento River on the west, up the Sierras to the east. The Maidu used coiled baskets as …

low were made by Mountain Maidu women of the Meadows-Baker families, spanning multiple generations. The resiliency, artistry, and wisdom of the Meadows-Baker families are illustrated …

The soup baskets and smaller saucer-like baskets are finer in texture and weave, and are made of maple, redbud, and a sort of grass or sedge known as tsi’takim.

The Maidu women were exemplary basketweavers, weaving highly detailed and useful baskets in sizes ranging from thimbles to huge ones 10 or more feet in diameter. The weaving on some …

The Maidu are an indigenous people to northern California residing in the central Sierra Nevada in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers and in the Humbug Valley. The Maidu were …

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Dec 15, 1985 · For years Lilly Baker, 74, a full-blooded Maidu who lives on the eastern shore of this large Plumas County lake, about 50 miles east of Red Bluff, has been the last of the …

Apr 14, 2014 · Basketry is a prominent art form in all indigenous American cultures since the earliest times, but it was particularly elevated in sophistication in the First Nations of California.