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Today, many of their baskets are housed at the National Smithsonian Anthropological Archives, University of California Berkeley, California State Parks Archives, and many other museums and universities. Louisa Francisco, a Bankalachi was well known for her wonderful baskets. Some Tübatulabal families in Kern Valley are related to Francisco.
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 addition to making closely woven, watertight baskets for cooking, they made large storage baskets, bowls, shallow trays, traps, cradles, hats, and seed beaters. They used dozens of different kinds of wild plant stems, barks, roots and leaves.
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]
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.
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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Degikup polychrome basket made by Tina Charlie in 1926. Won 2nd Prize at the 1926 Yosemite Indian Field Days, and sold in 2005 for $248,250. Tina Charlie (born Tina Jim in Mono Lake, California; 1869–1962) was a Native North American basketweaver. Affiliated with the Kucadikadi tribe, she wove baskets for her own use and that of others in the ...