YOKUTS BASKETS

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The anthropology exhibits include Native American artifacts primarily from the local Yokuts tribe. This group occupied the San Joaquin Valley for at least 8,000 years before the last full-blooded Yokuts died earlier this century. On exhibit are Yokuts points, baskets and other artifacts and artifacts of other nearby Native American groups. Yokuts baskets are among the Native Americans finest. The Yokuts made their baskets primarally by two methods coiling and twining. Twining occurs more often because they make baskets that stand up to rougher use. Consequently these baskets are usually undecorated. The Yokuts made many different shaped baskets corresponding to their use. One such somewhat unique design was a basket with a constricted neck known as a "bottleneck". A wide variety of designs were woven into their basketry, one common design was called the rattlesnake which copied the markings found on rattlesnakes.

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