TERESA CASTRO ALBANEZ Agave Fiber Sandals, Net Bags

California ethnographic tribal artist, Teresa Castro Albañez, poses for a photograph in 2006 standing on her remote desert ejido ranch holding traditional North American aboriginal fiber sandals and a fiber net bag she made by hand from self-harvested Agave and Yucca plants in the traditional Pai-Pai way as a working professional cultural ethnographic artist in Baja California Norte, Mexico.

Doña Teresa Castro Albañez is a well-known and respected aboriginal ethnobotanist consultant featured in Michael Alan Wilken's 2012 SDSU Anthropology Master of Arts Thesis.

CALIFORNIA INDIAN AUTHENTIC Ethnographic Arts Crafts

Photograph pictures eight pairs of AUTHENTIC California Indian Yuman aboriginal fiber sandals, four agave fiber net fiber carrying bags on a working Native American woodpile.

The pictured California Indian agave fiber arts and crafts items were made by the Paipai Indian family of Teresa Castro and may be purchased worldwide from SHUMUP KO HUP Native American gift shop specializes in authentic California Indian ethnographic arts and crafts SAN DIEGO CA.

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