Basket Materials

Western Shoshone, Washoe

Melanie Smokey & Allen Mike

Melanie Smokey & Allen Mike introduce the materials used in Western Shoshone weaving.

Silver Buffaloberry Cooked it is very high in phenolic antioxidants like lycopene for cardiovascular health.
Willow, Coyote & Red Willow Willows have many traditional uses among Native Americans. The flexible branches are used as building…
Black Hawthorn The addition of these berries, flowers, or sometimes leaves to food prevented or at least…
Elk Gifts Fire The story of how the gift of fire came to the Shoshone people is told…
Cancer Plant Medicines This ethnobotanical approach uses traditional plant medicines to bolster the human body’s own immune response…
Spirits of Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly is alive with voices in the wind and of the ancestors. These…