Pine Needle Baskets in Mi Wuk Tradition by Jaime
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Pine Needle Baskets in Mi Wuk Tradition by Jaime
Mis Quis (Dove) (aka Jaime Kaiser) is a tribal memberof the The Citizen Potawatomi Nation and learned Mi Wuk traditions growing up on her Grandfather's ranch in Burson (Calaveras County.) "My pine needle baskets are made from the tree in my backyard in Arnold. I like these needles particularly because they are from a Jeffrey Pine that is irrigated. This makes the needles extra long and some have bundles of four instead of three."This listing is for two baskets the one on the left is wider and slightly shorter than the one on the right. The one on the left measures: 3 1/2" tall by 4 3/4" wideThe one on the right measures: 3 1/2" tall by 3 1/2" wideI started photography when I was 11 with the Tri Dam 4-H Club in Valley Springs. I grew up on a 60 acre Ranch in Burson CA that we inherited from my Great grandfather (Pops). Growing up on a Ranch we did all our own growing food, maintaining, chores, caring for all sorts of things. We had two milk cows and all the other Ranch stuff. ( like old Mc Donald) This enabled me to learn to adjust and create. We were continually creating and inventing. We canned our food and ate from our livestock. Our acre food garden was also a staple. I sewed, beaded macramed and even tanned some of our livestock hides. Idle hands is the devils playground. We lived off the land. My hands were never idle and still true today. i can't just watch tv without some art project in hand being it sewing, crochet or anything i can create. Mom even baked our bread. We had very little processed food. We were land rich and money poor. Our clothes were bought from the good will. So if I wanted for anything I had to create it.""If necessity is the mother of invention, emotion is the grandmother of art." Jamie aka Dove