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  2. Pomo - Wikipedia

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    The baskets were wanted all over California; it was a piece of art that traders wanted. Grandmothers and daughters taught other Pomo women, who had lost the tradition of basket weaving, how to make the all-powerful baskets. [44] [failed verification] Within this time period in addition to basket weaving, the Pomo also manufactured elaborate ...

  3. Laura Somersal - Wikipedia

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    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] Despite ...

  4. Elsie Allen - Wikipedia

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    Elsie Comanche Allen (September 22, 1899 – December 31, 1990) was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California, significant as for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques and sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art form.

  5. William Ralganal Benson - Wikipedia

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    Mary and William enjoyed significant success in their artist careers of weaving Pomo baskets, traveled widely, and developed relationships with collectors and art dealers. [11] The couple demonstrated their weaving skills at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis in 1904. They had their own exhibit and jointly wove a basket that won ...

  6. Julia F. Parker - Wikipedia

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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).

  7. Mabel McKay - Wikipedia

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    McKay claimed that weaving, for her, was a spiritual path rather than a craft. [5] She claimed she was strictly instructed by Spirit as to how and what to weave. [5] Because of the sacred nature of her weaving, she usually wove in private. [4] In keeping with Pomo tradition, she used sedge for her baskets and redbud for the red designs.

  8. Cloverdale, California - Wikipedia

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    Pomo people are renowned for their basket weaving, done by both men and women. Elsie Allen, considered to be one of the best California basketweavers of her generation, was a member of the Rancheria and spent part of her childhood there. According to tribal history, the Pomo people lived peacefully in the area since ancient times.

  9. Susan Billy - Wikipedia

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    She is the granddaughter of Pomo basket weaver Susan Santiago Billy. [2] She grew up outside of Washington D.C. in Virginia, where her father worked for the Veterans Administration. In 1973, Billy moved to California and soon after located to Ukiah, California, where she studied Pomo basket weaving under her great aunt Elsie Allen for 15 years. [3]

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