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  Wife of a Miwok Chief of the Coast, 1833 Near BodegaBaya high-ranking woman offer guests acorn mush out of a ceremonial basket decorated with beads made of sea buck-thorn pits and decorated with red feathers taken from the heads of dozens of woodpeckers. Her soft feather mantel, which was …

  The woven basket hats where the women’s doing, but the painted designs applied on them where done by the men. The tasks were divided. The men went hunting and fishing, built the houses, carved the large canoes and performed all the engraving and painting tasks. The women occupied themselves …