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Collection of 19 Indian baskets on display, ca.1900 Photograph of a collection of 19 unidentified Indian baskets on display, photographed ca.1900. They are displayed on two tiers covered with a cloth and displayed hanging from a blanket backdrop. They mostly have the shape of a round bowl with a narrow neck and mouth.
Her baskets were featured in many newspapers and she was viewed as a prodigy. [1] She began giving demonstrations in the State Indian Museum in Sacramento, where she refused to sell the baskets she made and instead gave them as gifts. [1] In the late 1970s she began teaching basket-weaving classes for both native and non-native students. [2]
In 2006, one of her baskets sold at auction for $216,250. This basket had won first prize in the 1926 Yosemite Field Days basket competition. [4]Four of her baskets were part of an exhibition on the art of Yosemite which appeared at the Autry National Center, the Oakland Museum of California, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from 2006 to 2008.
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Sometimes the baskets produced by one tribe were indistinguishable from those made by those of another tribe. [7] Some fully feathered baskets have small, distinguishing features which suggests a specific tribal heritage. [3] Fully feathered baskets were very personal items, often given as a gift and destroyed at the death of the owner. [4]
Pomo baskets made by Pomo Indian women of Northern California are recognized worldwide for their exquisite appearance, range of technique, fineness of weave, and diversity of form and use. While women mostly made baskets for cooking, storing food, and religious ceremonies, Pomo men also made baskets for fishing weirs, bird traps, and baby baskets.
Five of Dat So La Lee's baskets are included in a 2023 exhibition Independent 20th Century in New York City. [11] The five include a basket titled "Brotherhood of Men" which sold for $1.2 million in 2007, and a 1916 basket titled "Myriads of Stars Shine Over Our Dead Ancestors" that Dat So La Lee considered as her best work.
She created new basketry designs, some inspired by Plains Indian geometric beadwork. [4] Lucy sold her baskets to Yosemite visitors. By the 1920s, Telles was regarded as the best basket weaver in Yosemite Valley. In 1924, she won a prize of $100 for her baskets. Her most famous basket was the largest known to have been woven in Yosemite Valley.