Alalimteeyik with baskets

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Title

Alalimteeyik with baskets

Description

Wedding trade. The women's family traded dried roots in root bags and dried berries in berry baskets. Alalimteeyik, grandmother of Mr. Moses Thomas. Courtesy, Rev. H. L. Sugden, Lapwai, Idaho, c. 1900.

Source

James, Caroline. 1996. Nez Perce women in transition, 1877-1990. Moscow, Idaho: University of Iowa Press. Page 87.

Date

circa 1900