Yokuts
The Yokuts lived in tribes with their own villages and regions. Their homeland was the San Joaquin Valley and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They lived along rivers and streams, hunting and gathering food and supplies.Yokuts basketry was made primarily with tule using twine and coil techniques.
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A Yokuts polychrome Friendship Basket
Item#: 7046
Decorated with 35 figures, holding hands, going around the basket in two rows. Additionally, the basket is decorated with two rows of rattlesnake designs.
Circa: 1920
Diameter: 10 1/2in
Height: 5 1/2in
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A cabinet-sized Yokuts bottleneck basket
Item#: 7072
Decorated with a polychrome diamond band around the middle and other designs on the sides, extending from top to bottom.
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Very Fine Yokuts Gambling Tray
Item#: 9466
This beautiful, very fine Yokuts gambling tray basket is decorated with a wonderful polychrome design. It is in excellent condition.
Circa: 1915
Diameter: 15 1/2in
Height: 3/4in
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A finely woven Polychrome Yokuts cabinet-size basket
Item#: 6033
Decorated with a fretwork meander going around the basket with strands of triple lobed cherries. The weaver is Minnie Hancock
Circa 1920
Diameter: 7in
Height: 3 1/8in
California Indian Basketry Ikons of the Florescence, page 162-163
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SOLD - A Very Rare and Fine Yokuts Historical basket
Item#: 4098
This Native American historic basket is decorated with tule lodge houses and figures. The shape of the basket is in the form of a tule lodge house. The houses were on the Upper Tule River and more nearly approached the shape of the great Indian tepees.
Circa: 1888
Diameter: 8in
Height: 6 1/2 in
The basket was purchased from Otis Tufton Mason in 1904
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A Large Yokuts Masterpiece
Item#: 2089
This large Yokuts friendship olla basket is decorated in polychrome with 53 figures holding hands in the Friendship Dance. The basket also has three rattlesnake bands going around the sides and top. the rim has ticking. Woven by Mary Dick Topino (know as Mrs. Britches) 1868-1923.
Circa: 1910
Diameter: 12 1/2in
Height: 6 1/2in
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A large Yokuts style polychrome coiled olla
Item#: 8035
with a flattened base and expanding rounded body, rounded shoulder and a short cylindrical neck. Decorated with figures, bears, deer, crosses and friezes of geometric designs.
Weaver: Abe Sanchez (CA 1970-present) member of the California Indian Basket Weavers Association
Diameter: 16in
Height: 13in
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A Yokuts mortar for face paints
Item#: FL-35
Found at Tulare Lake, Tulare County, California
Frank Latta Collection
Diameter: 2 3/4in
Height: 2in
Face painting was an art form for the Yokuts, for both faces and bodies. Various designs were used in conjunction with different ceremonies and symbols of may families. The paint was mixed to the consistency of a thick grease, being a combination of elk tallow and bear oil.
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A large Yokuts polychrome bottleneck
Item#: 9462
The body has vertical black and red "face-downward" motif. On the shoulder is red yarn.
Circa 1900
Diameter: 13in
Height: 7in
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A Yokuts pictorial figured polychrome bowl by Mrs. Dick Francisco
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A fine Yokuts bowl
Item#: 5005-12
From the John Painter Collection
Circa: 1915
Diameter: 17in
Height: 6 1/2in
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Yokuts large bowl
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Yokuts olla
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Yokuts gambling tray
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Yokuts figured basket by Mrs. Britches
Item#: 5017-39
Ref. Photos by Leo Brown, Reedley, CA
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 10in
Height: 5in
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Yokuts Bottleneck with 40 figures
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Yokuts bottleneck by Mrs. Dick Francisco
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Yokuts bottleneck basket by Mrs. Dick Francisco
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Yokuts bottleneck basket by Mrs. Dick Francisco
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
Yokuts bottleneck basket by Mrs. Dick Francisco
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Indian Baskets - Yokuts
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