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Mono Cradle Board

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Mono Cradle Board
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This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 17 @ 09:43UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Traditional full-sized woven basketry baby carrier of willow and redfern with matching sunshade and original finger woven straps. This Mono Indian cradleboard in very good condition, 24" long, 15" wide at top and 10" deep at sun shade. Known for their basketry and beading, the Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. Throughout recorded history, the Mono have also been known as "Mona," "Monache," or "Northfork Mono," as labeled by E.W. Gifford, an ethnographer studying people in the vicinity of the San Joaquin River in the 1910s. The tribe's western neighbors, the Yokuts, called them monachie meaning "fly people" because fly larvae was their chief food staple and trading article. That led to the name Mono. Traditionally, the Mono lived in central California along the Sierra Nevada, higher in elevation (mainly 3,000 to 7,000 feet) then the Foothill Yokuts. Today most Mono live on Big Sandy and Cold Springs Rancherias, with other Indians on the Tule River Reservation, and in several northern California communities. In the eighteenth century, the Mono included six independent tribal groups (Northfork Mono, Wobonuch, Entimbich, Michahay, Waksachi, Patwisha). They were in general culturally similar to the neighboring Foothill Yokuts. Since they lived in a region not highly desired by miners or non-native settlers, they enjoyed relatively higher survival rates in the nineteenth century than did most other California Indian peoples. As "homeless Indians," the Mono received three rancherias from the federal government in the 1910s. Some individuals also acquired parcels of land. Many people retained their traditional subsistence gathering patterns while working as loggers, ranch hands, miners, and domestic help.

City: Central California, along Sierra Nevadas
State: California,
Date: c.1800's

FHWAC#: 24906