Graduate Fellows:
- Cristyna Galarza
- Manuel Dueñas
- Scott Nicolay
Project Summary:
Discussions with members of the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA) confirmed the value of producing 3D digital images of traditional baskets in museum collections that can be shared back with communities of origin, thus making currently inaccessible basket-weaving techniques and designs on curated baskets available to contemporary basket weavers. Digital Heritage preservation techniques can restore access to the baskets and related materials to the communities that created them. The project will focus on the creation of 3D visual scans of the baskets in some of these collections. This project is in its second year of support.
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Project Featured in a Newsletter Article:
"UC Merced Basketweaver Cecilia Moreno Tachi Yokut/Wukchumni at Center of ‘Baskets 2 Bytes.’" Roots and Shoots, no. 63, Spring 2019.
Contributions to Calisphere Archive:
Digitization of baskets for the McLean Collection, UC Merced Library Special Collections and Archives:
