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Maidu Baskets

Types of Maidu basketry: coiled baskets for cooking, storage and a variety of other uses.  Usual Maidu basket materials include: hazel, redbud, willow and maple shoots; beargrass and ceanothus; fern, fir, cedar and pine roots.

The ancestral homeland of the Maidu people is the northern Sierra Nevada of California. 



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