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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).
[3] [20] Even once it is harvested, the willow, sedge, and other materials she uses may take months or years to dry and go through proper preparation for weaving. [3] Yamane has been a member of the California Indian Basketweavers Association since 1991, when it was founded. [20] She was the co-editor of the organization's periodical: Roots and ...
To craft a traditional Pomo basket, Somersal would have to dig the roots of the sedge, soak, and dry them to shape before weaving. [6] The tight weave of the Pomo baskets let them to a myriad of uses. Somersal recalled how her mother used the baskets for everything, including cooking acorn mush, gathering water and carrying babies. [5]
A woven basket made by Lucy Telles (National Museum of the American Indian) Telles, who learned basket weaving as a child, was well known for her fine basketry during her lifetime. Her innovations in basket weaving had a lasting influence on Yosemite weavers. While traditional Miwok baskets had one color, she used two colors per basket.
This resulted in great innovation in the form of the baskets. Many pieces by Native American basket weavers from all parts of California are in museum collections, such as the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, the Southwest Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian.
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]
Artist Lucy Telles and large basket, in Yosemite National Park, 1933 A woman weaves a basket in Cameroon Woven bamboo basket for sale in K. R. Market, Bangalore, India. Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture.
She is a former board member of the California Indian Basketweavers Association and one of seven founding board members of the Advocates for Indigenous California Languages, organizations that are involved in the preservation and revival of Native Californian languages through traditional arts practice, language immersion, conferences and workshops.