Basket Maker
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A literary essay by Mary Austin portraying Seyavi, a Paiute basket maker of the Owens Valley in California. It recounts her widowhood, her survival after the Paiute defeat, her bowls decorated with a quail-plume design in colored bark, and her old age and blindness. Basketry appears as an expression of the maker's character and landscape rather than as a technical subject; there are no construction instructions.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- 1903
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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