TINA VEGA KUMIAI Basket Hat

San Jose de la Zorra juncus basket artist Tina Vega, Kumiai poses for pictures at her home, FEB 3, 2005.

Above the young female basket artist models one of her own tribal juncus baskets hats.
Below she hold a coiled juncus basket tray, plate (the symmetry of her Native American Indian cultural design is outstanding!).

Both contemporary ethnographic cultural art pieces are split juncus on deergrass foundation.

This professional environmental portraiture on location is by Gary Ballard and part of kumeyaay.info original turn of the 21st century San Jose de la Zorra Kumeyaay Indian Community on-line documentary, Kumeyaay photos pictures of Kumeyaay basket weavers, basketweaving, overall documentary style photo documentation of the village inhabitants, habitations.

Tina and her husband Joaquin Montes support their family by producing authentic indigenous Kumial art objects for sale in the Mexico-U.S. border region their aboriginal ancestors have occupied for some 12,000 years.