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Wednesday, August 19th

When Designs Escaped Baskets
​When Designs Escaped Baskets focuses on the visual language of basket designs of the Hupa, Karuk, Wiyot and Yurok tribes. Stitching together a timeline from pre-contact to today, the exhibit examines moments when designs grew and changed for trade, within new materials, and more. Iconic designs are spotlighted and their breadth of shape and form are shown across baskets from the Clarke Museum collections.  

Pine Nut Processing and Dressmaking
At the Clarke Historical Museum, we have a few pieces of women’s regalia that are ‘orphaned.’  That means that either an apron or a skirt is by itself in our collection and cannot be danced at local ceremonies.  In order to be danced in, we need to recreate the missing skirt or aprons.  The first dress we are restoring is a skirt to go with the apron in this video.  We need to clean about 2000 pine nuts in order to make this skirt.  The video goes over cleaning pine nuts.  When we are open to the public again, and allowed to meet in small groups, we hope to get back to our dressmaking sessions – they will be open to the public.

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Basket Design Bingo
Yurok Word Finder
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​Eureka, California 95501
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