Creation Date

1931 – 1955

Description

"This Hoopa basket is 6 inches in diameter. It is made of natural cedar root, black maiden-hair fern and reddish-brown manzanita, with a geometric design. "Grandma" Quimby, a full blood Hoopa who was about 100 years old when she gave this to me wove the basket. She said that the manzanita was chewed before it was put in warm water to make a dye that never fades."
This basket has a flint pattern.

"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.

There are 15 rows of 11 stitches per inch. The basket is in a flint design.