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.

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 ...

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 ...

Susan Billy, a tribal member of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, a founding member of the California Indian Basketweaver’s Association, and one of few remaining artists practicing traditional Pomo ...

Thousands of years before Russian fur trappers, Spanish missionaries and American settlers arrived to the Northern California coast, the Northern Pomo Indians called area from the Noyo River to the ...

Author Ralph Shanks and editor Lisa Woo Shanks will present their book “Indian Baskets of Central California — Art, Culture, and History” during a “Meet the Author and Book Signing” on Saturday, Dec.

The wood bark shelters and grinding stones at the American Indian village behind the Yosemite Museum represent to Julia Parker her awakening as a Native American. Parker, 84, is one of the country's ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Digitization of the Princeton ...

"This Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Whedon & Spreng Co., Los Angeles, in 1903"--Title page verso. NMAI copy 39088016957797 ...