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1. Apples by Sybil Easterday, c. 1900 - Painting

   Apples by Sybil Easterday, n.d.. Oil on canvas mounted inside a plain gold-painted wooden frame. Image depicts a brown open-weave basket laying on its side with red, yellow and green apples spilling out onto a brown-colored fringed tablecloth that sits on a brown table.

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2. Basket Quilt, n.d. - Quilt, Bed

   Basket Quilt, n.d.. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted cotton basket quilt. 48 blue baskets of various calico prints are on a white ground. Baskets are 6.75" x 5.375" and are comprised six small half-square triangles for the handle, one large half-square triangle for the bowl and two small half-square triangles for the base. Blocks are sewn on point with white blocks between each and a white 8" border all around with mitered corners. White backing...

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3. Industrial Plants of the California Indians - Hoover, Robert L.

   Magazine article clipping, "Industrial Plants of the California Indians," by Robert L. Hoover. Published in Pacific Discovery volume 25 by the California Academy of Sciences in 1971. Seven pages. Illustrated.

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4. Japanese Travel Basket, c. 1915-1930 - Basket, Carrying

   Japanese Travel Basket, c. 1915-1930. Large rectangular basket (A) with matching lid (B), probably made of woven bamboo. Weave is in a chevron pattern with a wrapped rim. Lid is slightly larger than the main basket in order to completely cover it and seal it closed but, open, both could be used as separate baskets. This travel basket is typical of those used by Japanese immigrants to carry the belongings with them to the U.S.

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5. Native American Basket, c. 1800s - Basket

   Native American Basket, c. 1800s. Small brown coiled bowl-shaped basket, with smaller strands of the fibers woven around a single sturdier piece spiraling up from the bottom center. The sides have an alternating black pattern of horses and a double-diamond shape, with three double-diamonds and two horses, and a blank space where a third horse would complete the pattern.

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6. Ohlone Hopper Basket, 2019 - Basket, Food

   Ohlone Hopper Basket, 2019. Hopper basket made by Ohlone Indian Linda Yamane using traditional Ohlone basket weaving techniques. This is a traditional bottomless utilitarian basket that sits on top of a shallow stone mortar, creating a deep bowl for pounding acorns into meal. Basket is made with willow foundation rods, sedge rhizome, bracken fern rhizomes (black pattern) and a creekside dogwood rim stick. Basket is woven of a sedge ground wi...

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