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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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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. [43] [failed verification] Within this time period in addition to basket weaving, the Pomo also manufactured elaborate ...
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 ).
Mary Knight Benson (1877–1930) was a Pomo woman from California who excelled in basket making. Her work is highly collectible and renowned for fine craftsmanship. She and her husband, William Ralganal Benson (Eastern Pomo, 1862–1937), partnered in basket weaving, and their work is in public museum collections.
Annie Burke, the mother of one of the most celebrated Pomo basket weavers, Elsie Allen, was a Cloverdale Pomo and Elsie spent part of her childhood living on the Cloverdale Rancheria. [2] Russian fur traders were the first non-Indians to settle in Pomo land in the late 18th century. They established Fort Ross in 1812 and hunted sea otter. [1]