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Great Basin Basket Weavers Western Folklife Center Wiegand Gallery July 12 ~ December 10, 2011 |
The Great Basin Basket Weavers exhibition showcases hand crafted seed beaters, winnowing tray, spoons, bowls, cups, burden baskets, bug baskets, baby rattle, storage baskets, cradle boards and cradle tops, made largely from materials native to the Great Basin region including buckskin, willow, tule, redbud, and bracken fern. Weaving techniques used include coiled, open twine, diagonal twine and closed twine. This exibition was funded by the Nevada Arts Council.
Weavers represented in the Great Basin Basket Weavers exhibition include the late Eva Dick Piffero (Western Shoshone), Nancy Green (Western Shoshone), Lillian Sanchez (Duckwater Shoshone), Jenny Dick (Yerington Paiute/Shoshone), Bernice Steele (Goshute), Sandra Eagle (Northern Paiute/Shoshone-Bannock), the late Robert Baker Jr. (Northern Paiute), the late Theresa Temoke (Western Shoshone), Elizabeth Dann (Western Shoshone), Webb Brady and the late Elizabeth Brady (Western Shoshone), Leah Brady (Western Shoshone), Sage Dunn (Northern Paiute), Evangeline and Delbert Holley (Western Shoshone), Charlotte Bacoch (Owens Valley Paiute), Everitt Pikyavit (Southern Paiute/Goshute/Chemehuevi), Ennis Peck (Mountain Maidu) and Mike Williams (Northern Paiute).
This exhibition of contemporary basket weaving was curated by Western Shoshone basket weaver Leah Brady to coincide with the Shoshonean/Numic Language Reunion XII held in Elko, Nevada, July 12-14, 2011. The reunion brought Shoshonean/Numic speaking tribes together to promote, revive, and share tribal progress, language, and cultural programs from each of their native communities.
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