The Old Basket-Weaver of San Fernando
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A first-person magazine article from Overland Monthly in which the author visits the mission village of San Fernando, California, in search of an authentic old Indian basket. Along the way a collector friend explains how to tell genuine old baskets from those made for sale, including dyes, uses and ornament. The author meets Juana, an aged Indian basket-weaver, who demonstrates coiled basket construction and talks about the baskets of her youth. Illustrated with photographs of baskets from the Jewett collection and the mission cloister.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- January 1898
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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