RATTLESNAKES

Kumeyaay California tribal basket weavers are famous and respected for their fine Native American coiled juncus basket art. The southern Kumiai Indian weavers of San Jose de la Zorra, Baja California, Mexico, are keeping this cultural tradition alive and their small Mecican tribal ejido is a nest of coiled rattlesnakes.

Pictured above on her San Jose de la Zorra rancho, Maribel Montes Silva displays a large juncus coiled rattlesnake basket she just finished for a commissioned basket sale, March 5, 2006.

The young indigenous female is a well known southern Kumiai tribal basket weaver who illustrates the fine Native American Indian basketry art of the Indigenous California peoples of northern Baja California and southwestern California border region.

Maribel supports her family with her mission basket style basketry and specialises in coiled juncus ratlesnakes.

Young Montes Silva displays one of her first tribal baskets October 25, 2005 -- I don't want to post her name as I am not positive of it -- email her name if you want it posted....

LISTEN TO AN AUDIO RECORDING OF the muchachas jõvenes cantantes SINGING into a microphone at the San Jose de la Zorra fiesta in March 2006.

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