Biography of a basket weaver

EVA SALAZAR — a Kumiai Indian from San Jose de la Zorra Indigenous Community, Baja California, Mexico — spent her childhood growing up in the remote poverty-stricken tribal ejido learning how to make traditional Kumeyaay baskets from her Aunt Celia Silva and mother.  The famous Kumeyaay Indian basket weavers taught young Eva the coiled basket-weaving techniques that the Indigenous California peoples have used for hundreds if not thousands of years to create utilitarian baskets for storage, winnowing, cooking, and serving acorn mush (shawii).

TRIBAL HOMELANDS:

Click on the above picture to view an extensive professional multimedia documentary about Eva Salazar's remote tribal village.

See the above Google satellite map image for the precise pinpoint location of San Jose de la Zorra — Eva's tribal village in Mexico — in the Valle de Guadalupe area located approximately 40 miles south of Tijuana and 40 miles north of Ens