The Washoe live on the eastern side of Lake Tahoe and in the high cold desert of California and Nevada on the Alpine-Washoe Reservation in Alpine County. They made rabbit-skin blankets to keep out the cold. In "The Earth is Our Mother" by Dolan Eargle, there is a wonderful picture of a Washoe baby in a cradleboard.

The Washoe gave salt to the Northern Miwok and got acorns, shell beads, sea shells and baskets. They gave the Sierra Miwok salt, pinon nuts, buffalo skin robes and rabbit-skin blankets, and got acorns, beads, shells, baskets and manzanita berries. They got Papam bulbs from the Northeastern Maidu, and Kutsavi (the larva of a fly) from the Eastern Mono. From "the West" they got redbud bark for basketry, and soaproot leaves for brushes.(Davis: 1966)

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