Before Elsie Allen’s mother died, she defied convention and asked that her handwoven baskets not be buried with her so others could learn from them. “Mother died in 1962, and I have tried to keep my ...

NMAI copy Purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Dedication -- Preface / Wayne A. Thompson, Gene Meieran -- ...

In the early 1900s, William and Mary Benson, a Pomo Indian couple, won renown for their exquisite Native American baskets. In 1912, they gave one of William's most masterly pieces to a trusted friend.

Fawn Rave’s grandmother taught her how to weave baskets when she was a child. It was more art than science, and it was a skill learned one-on-one, with Rave’s grandmother guiding her movements. When ...

This exhibition features more than 200 of the finest examples of Native American baskets from the museum's collection—from baskets used as utilitarian objects to those woven for the tourist market.

The basket makers weave baskets for specific uses, he said, comparing their use to the American tradition of using labeling canisters in the kitchen for flour and sugar. Instead of using labels, the ...

Imagine a Pomo woman thousands of years ago carefully gathering vines, honeysuckle and wisteria to create her baskets. A Coastal Miwok using spruce root, cedar bark and swampgrass. Although now ...

Running at the de Young Museum through April 17, “Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo” transports us to the U.S. West of the post-Civil War decades, when white settlers and business interests were ...

Corine Pearce is a Pomo basket weaver from Redwood Valley, CA. Throughout the history of the Pomo people, baskets were the essential tool of life and Pomo baskets are among the best in the world by ...