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Paiute Winnowing Tray

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 USD and UP
Paiute Winnowing Tray
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Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite#309
Reno, NV 89511
Thursday August22, 10am-6pm
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August 23 & 24, 2013
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Atlantis Casino & Resort
Grand Ballroom #4
3800 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502

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Reno, NV 89511
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No Date-Native American. This tray measures 16” at widest point and 23” in length and is coarsely woven of willow and laced with strips of willow between the sections and around the perimeter to hold the foundation rods together. Winnowing baskets had multiple uses for the Paiutes. According to Margaret Wheat (Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes, University of Nevada Reno Press, 1967), “Size and weave depended on their use. The large, coarse-woven trays…were used for netting minnows, serving roasted or boiled squirrel, duck, fish, and rabbit, and for drying meat….The fine-woven trays…were used for gathering seeds.” Possibly from the Mono Lake area. HKA#64414