Large and most beautiful incredible Native American basket is displayed by Kumeyaay tribal children with great NATIVE PRIDE in the tribal basket art of San Jose de la Zorra, an impoverished indigenous Kumiai Indian village ejido in northwestern Baja California, Mexico.

Three of Aurelia's young children help display the masterpiece juncus basket for the above professional photograph. The young boy on the left is a close cousin of the children, the oldest son of Janet Salazar.

All four of Aurelia's young children are pictured below.

The photographed large Campo coiled juncus basket exhibits two large diamondback rattlesnakes with butterfly motif patterns, traditional Native American Kumeyaay cultural designs.

The unique Native American basket art was weaved by hand over some 5-6 months and completed in April 2006 by Aurelia Ojeda, Kumeyaay.

The large coiled juncus basket is also known as the famous Campo Indian tribal basket, a treasured turn-of-the-century Kumeyaay tribal art object artifact.

Aurelia's magnificent California Indian basket was purchased by H. Paul Cuero Jr., chairman of the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, and is on display at the Campo tribal offices.

BASKET SIZE DETAILS:

Diameter: 22 inches
Height: 3 inches
Materials: Coiled Natural Juncus, Black-dyed Juncus, Red Juncus, Split Juncus Foundation

KUMEYAAY INDIAN FAMILY: Mother, son, three daughters

Aurelia takes a photo with all four of her young children at their kitchen table, January 26, 2005. She supports her family through professional juncus basket artistry.

Canasta Cesta de Indios Americano Nativo

Aurelia Ojeda, Kumeyaay Basket Maker Biography

Some of today's finest and most beautiful Native American Indian baskets are being produced by professional juncus weavers in the rural Native American tribal villages or ejidos of Baja California, Mexico, including San Jose de La Zorra.

Unlike the Native California Indian weavers in southwestern USA whose traditional basket makers have nearly ceased weaving juncus baskets for sale, San Jose de la Zorra has a group of practicing juncus weavers thanks to concerted efforts in Southern California by SHUMUP KO HUP Indian Store who has been working over decades promoting and nurturing the working indigenous Native American artists south of the US-Mexico border, providing the basket weavers with stay-at-home job opportunities to be with their families and live in their cultural lifestyles on their Native indigenous lands.

EXPENSIVE Native American Basketry

This particular 22-inch juncus basket -- with two coiled rattlesnake motifs, and fun butterfly patterns ageless Native American Indian designs -- has surpassed the webmaster's criteria for masterpiece California Indian basket art.

It should be noted today's contemporary professional Native American basket weavers rarely make baskets for sale this large and beautiful because the time a weaver spends on one of these baskets makes it much more difficult to sell because they are so expensive; very few collectors can afford them, and very few professional weavers can spend that much time on one basket waiting for a paycheck.

However, these expensive Native baskets also are sound tribal investments that not only look beautiful in the home, museum exhibit, and tribal office, but these unique works of Native American art also appreciate in value more substantially over time than the smaller and less impressive common Native baskets -- the masterpiece baskets are certainly more memorable.

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