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Fully feathered basket curated at Indian Grinding Rock State Park in Volcano, California. A vigorous market for genuine, traditional baskets opened in the 1880s and lasted until the 1930s, a market that was primarily for the finer types of baskets mostly made by women. [12]
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]
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. [7]
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.
In the USA, the popularity of FSBO has been increasing since the late 1980s, with real estate website Zillow reporting a doubling of listings between 2012 and 2014 (up to 4%). ForSaleByOwner.com saw 24% growth in 2013, and StreetEasy reports that New York City FSBO listings increased by nearly 30% in that same period. [ 5 ]
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Julia Florence Parker (born February 1928) [1] is a Coast Miwok-Kashaya Pomo basket weaver. Parker studied with some of the leading 20th century indigenous Californian basketweavers: Lucy Telles ( Yosemite Miwok - Mono Lake Paiute ); Mabel McKay , ( Cache Creek Pomo - Patwin ) and Elsie Allen ( Cloverdale Pomo ).