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Yurok Baskets

Type of Yurok basketry: finely twined baskets serving a wide variety of utilitarian, social and ceremonial functions.  Usual materials for Yurok baskets include: willow and hazel shoots; redwood, pine and spruce roots; beargrass, fern and porcupine quill.

The ancestral homeland of the Yurok people is northwestern California, along the lower Klamath River.



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