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Photographer: Douglass Halvorsen
Taken: February 21, 2015
Caption: The Klamath Tribes Interpretive Display
Additional Description:
Basket Design
The large Circular design depicts the Klamath and Modoc Tribes, and Yahooskin Band of Snake River Indians circular universe, rather than linear in concept and belief.

Of central importance to the maklaks (people) of the Tribes is Wocus (scientific name--Nuphar polysepalum) a waterlilly from which they would gather ripened pods and remove the seeds, to manufacture into Wocus, the staple food in the diet of our People.

Five golden-brown petals help represent out "sacred" number, or our good-luck number.

The inner circular basket design is a rendition of the Crows'Kneed-On Design. nGak, or Crow, is a powerful being in the legends and culture of our People.

The Traditional names of our Tribes are represented in the outer circle. E-ukskni (People of the Lake) refers to the Klamaths, Moadalkni (The Southern People) refers to the Modocs. And Numu (The People) refers to the Yahooskin Paiutes.

The outside circular basket design is the sawalsaltantk, or "Arrowpoint-on" design, which symbolically holds together all our people, The Klamath Tribes.
Submitted: January 17, 2018, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Database Locator Identification Number: p412879
File Size: 0.597 Megabytes

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