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Pomo Burden Basket
Approximately
24" x 24"
Small hole in bottom, break on side and rim is bad.
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Pomo Indian Baskets
The Pomo Indians lived in Lake County, California around Clear Lake.
Their Basketry is the most versatile and diversified of all Indian Tribes.
They made use of feathers, shell beads and glass beads.
The Pomo used twined and coiled baskets as well as many other techniques.
Ceremonial Gift Baskets, Hoppers for grinding, Cone shaped Burden Baskets all make up
the Basketry of these fine weavers.
Pomo Indian Internet Sites
Help save a Native American
Culture:
Here is a link to an
informative Elsie Allen Site:
California
POMO Tribal Information:
SHORT
OVERVIEW OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN HISTORY - Pomo - By:
Professor Edward D. Castillo
Cahuilia-Luiseno
Professor
Ron Johnson
TRIBAL ARTS REVIEW
POMO (CALIFORNIA)
- Acorns
for Pounding, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History
- Acorn
Preparation, Julia Parker 1996
- Pomo
Woman Gathering Seeds, Edward Curtis Photograph
- Elsie
Allen Weaving
- Pomo
basket materials: sedge (white), redbud (red), willow (sticks at
top), bulrush (black - not shown)
- Large
Acorn Plain Twined Storage Basket, Oakland Museum of Art
- Boat
Shaped Coiled Basket, Univ. of Penn .c. 1905
- Coiled
Canoe Basket, Mable McKay Chavez, Willets Museum
- Twined
Eating Basket, Mary Benson 1895-1900, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiaha
- Quail
Design Coiled Basket, Mary Benson, Museum of the American Indian,
New York
- Miniature
Coiled Baskets, Mary Benson, Museum of the American Indian, New York
- Feathered
Coiled Gift Basket, William Benson, Museum of the American Indian,
New York
- Beaded
Coiled Gift Baskets, Annie Lake, 1975, Grace Hudson, Ukiaha
- Feathered
Coiled Basket (Tapica) Mary John Posh, Univ. of Penn. c. 1905 (250
quail, 223 woodpeckers)
- Feathered
Coiled Basket (Tapica), Field Museum, Chicago
- Feathered
Coiled Basket, Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
- Feathered
Coiled Basket, Museum of the American Indian, New York
- Large,
Diagonally Twined Feast Bowl .ca. 1905
- Twined
Burden Basket .ca. 1905, Alice Worris, Univ. of Penn.
Pomo Indian Basket Museums
Lake County
Museum, Lakeport, California
Pomo Indian Basket Books
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Remember
Your Relations:
The
Elsie Allen Baskets, Family and Friends
by Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney and Susan Billy
Examines the lives of work of the weavers whose
baskets are part of the collection assembled by Pomo Indian
basketmakers Annie Burke and her daughter Elsie Allen.
$24.00 (includes shipping)
Available
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Grace Hudson Museum Store |
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Pomo
Basketmaking
by
Elsie Allen
This how-to book by famed Pomo Indian weaver
Elsie Allen is a classic. Along with instructions on how to make
different types of Pomo baskets, Mrs. Allen talks of her life and
experiences growing up in Sonoma and Mendocino counties.
$10.00 (includes shipping)
Available
at the The
Grace Hudson Museum Store
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Pomo
Indian Basketry
by
Samual Barrett
This volume is the most complete and detailed of
Pomo Indian basketry. First published in 1908, it is updated by an
introduction by Grace Hudson Museum director Sherrie Smith-Ferri
providing a human context for Barrett's work.
$33.00 (includes shipping)
Available
at the The
Grace Hudson Museum Store
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Weaving
a California Tradition:
A
Native American Basketmaker
by Linda Yamane
This richly detailed photographic essay
accompanies Carly, and 11 year old girl, as she goes through the
process of making a basket; from gathering the materials, to
weaving, to entering the basket weaver show. Lush photographs and
personal text bring to life this special part of California Indian
tradition.
$13.00 (includes shipping)
Available
at the The
Grace Hudson Museum Store
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