Special Events

Coyote Hills Visitor Center
Beverly Ortiz
10am-4pm, Sun, Jan 20, 27, Feb 3 Course #1166

Coyote Hills Regional Park: Experience the intricacy and ingenuity of Central California Indian basketry. Gain an understanding of a thousands-of-years-old relationship between people and place as you learn to harvest willow and sedge growing along an oak-studded, streamside woodland. You’ll be guided through the process of curing, sizing and trimming those materials, along with redbud, before using these plants to create a small, coiled basket with Sierra Mewuk techniques.  

18+yrs
Registration Required

Fee: $120 per individual $100 seniors (non-res. $132 per individual $112 per seniors)

                                         Photo by Alan Dalton
                                Trimming a redbud sewing strand.

                                             Photo by Alan Dalton
               Healthy stands of basketry willow used to make Mewuk baskets.