Laura Shaw Basket
Photo from "Panamint Shoshone Basketry" by Eva Slater
Available here!
Laura Shaw was born in 1887 and died in the 1940's. She was born
in Nevada and went to Owen's Lake in 1915, in her last years she lived
at Lone Pine. She was an alcoholic and died in a camp
fire. Her baskets depict shorebirds.
All info and pictures were taken from Eva Slater's
book PANAMINT SHOSHONE BASKETRY An American Art Form Available
here!
