"The Pine Nut Eater" (meaning)

The Tubatulabal lived in higher elevations above the Kern and South Fork Kern Rivers near Mt. Whitney in three discrete bands. Tubatulabal baskets were typically twined and coiled. The twined baskets were generally utilitarian and were undecorated in the forms of pack baskets, winnowing trays, sieves, seed beaters, fish traps, and cradleboards. Coiled baskets include cooking and eating bowls, winnowing trays, shifting trays, hats, hoppers as well as gift baskets. Materials used in the basket making were foundations of deer grasses, yucca root, willow, devils claw, sedge, and bull rush root.