List from Grace Nicholson to Harry George

Name/Title

List from Grace Nicholson to Harry George

Entry/Object ID

Q1430.635.45B

Description

Vol II pg. 45B List from Grace Nicholson of baskets with prices and some descriptions sent to Harry George on approval, and some he already purchased. List of Baskets sent to Harry L. George on Approval, Net 18– Maricopa, $3.50 167– Hoh, 12.00 190– “ 2.00 177– Tulalip, 6.00 2912– [Mylakie?], 6.50 41– Santa Barbara Channel Basket 6.00 43– Queets 6.00 257– Faweah, 4.50 286– Concow 12.00 63– Wintun, 27.50 [faint – could be 37)] 2913– Lumi, 3.40 210– Mesa Grande, purchased 12.00 10150 810 Dieguenon, Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., Calif., Yuman Family Foundation: – [bunch?] of grass (vilfa rigeus) coiled with three leaf sumac. Brown material Bulrush ([Juscus?] Lenneril) Made by Ramona Ballanzuella. Baskets sold to Harry L. George, 16- Maricopa – Yuman Family – Salt River Reservation, Ariz. Materials: – Foundation Cat tail stems (typha angreatifolia) sewed with willow (salix nigra) Design woven with the black material obtained from the martyrnia. Coiled weave. 167 – Hoh-Chimakuan Family, Washington. 190 – Materials: – Foundation – Cedar Bark Twined with strips of pine root or hemp rushes. Grasses dyed by steeping in the roots of plants. 177 – Tulalip–Salishan Family – Wash. Tulalip Reservation. Materials: – Foundation split roots of the cedar or spruce twined with squas grass (xerophllum tenox) Sometimes use strips of wild cherry bark for decoration. 2912 – Wailaki, Copenhagen Family – Round Valley, Calif. Materials used same as Pomo. 41 – Santa Barbara Mission Basket – Costanoan Family . Twined weave supposedly of Juneus. 43 – Queets, Chimakuan Family, Washington, Northwest Coast. Material same as Hohs. 257– Kaweah – Mariposan Family – Fresno Co., Calif. Materials: – Foundation grass stems, (sporobolus vilfa)., sewed with the root of slough grass– #2 (cyperus virens). The red material is the red bud and the black fern root. 986– Concow-Pujunan Family – Round Valley, Calif. Materials: – Foundation willow (salix sezeifolia) sewed with root of Calif sedge (carex barbarae) Red material redbud (circis occidentalis). 63– Wintus – Copenhagen Family – Sacramento River, Calif. Material same as 2912. 83– Lummi– Salishan Family – North Puget Sound, Wash. Materials: – Foundation split cedar roots twined with squaw grass.

Subject

Nicholson, Grace Pasadena, California Basket Maricopa Hoh Tulalip Mylakie Basket -- Santa Barbara Channel Queets Faweah Concow Wistun Lumi

Subject Person/Organization

Harry L. George Collection