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Yokut Cooking Bowl

Approximately forty named tribes of people generally considered Yokuts range from the Northern San Joaquin Valley (Stockton) to the Southern San Joaquin Valley (Bakersfield, Ca), in the Eastern foothills as far South as Tehachapi and as far North as the Calaveras River.

Yokuts were a hunter gathering society living on deer, salmon, acorns and other small game and plants.

Their basketry designs represent several snake that lived in their surroundings including rattlesnakes, gopher snakes, water snakes and king snakes.

Large cooking baskets were used to cook acorn mush by dropping hot rocks heated by fire into the baskets. It was a slow cooking process. This large cooking/storage basket displays three horizontal bands of water snake design. This basket was probably used as an acorn storage basket and is in excellent condition. This basket was very time consuming to make and production gradually decreased as native people transitioned into using metal cooking utensils.

10'ht x 191/2'wd A polychrome large Cooking bowl, Squaw valley ca circa 1900

$6000

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