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Gambling tray

Mrs. Dick Francisco Native American

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Yokuts women used decorated trays to play a dice game called huuchuish. Mrs. Dick Francisco, a master of weaving, created this extraordinary example, one of the largest and most finely woven of its kind. It incorporates imagery of human figures, flowerlike clusters, and diamond-shaped rattlesnake patterns. She wove for the curio trade, and the tray’s pristine condition suggests that it entered a private collection upon completion.

Gambling tray, Mrs. Dick Francisco (Native American, Yokuts, 1857–1953), Marsh grass, bracken fern root, redbud, Yokuts

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