Creation Date

1931 – 1955

Description

"A flexible, willow root basket, decorated with light beige mountain grass, black maiden-hair fern and gold porcupine quills. This is a round, 6 inch in diameter basket with a spoke rim. It was made by "Grandma" Quimby and when she gave it to me, she was either 100 years old or close to it. She was a full blood Hoopa Indian."

"I never went to Hoopa, California, that I did not visit with "Grandma" Quimby. She could not speak English, and I could not speak a word of Hoopa. And yet by sign language and pointing, she told me how she went to the high mountains for grass, how she went to the Trinity River and gathered the first new willow roots in the spring of the year, showed how she removed the bark by pulling the root through her teeth, how she gathered manzanita from which she made the beautiful orange red dye found in many Hoopa baskets, how she started to weave or form a basket, and how she used different stitches." -From Cleora's guide to the collection.

The baske has a "Flint" design. There are 16 rows of 13 stitches per inch.