Coiled Basket
Pomo
Artist: Annie Burke
Three rod coil with willow foundation, patterns in dyed bulrush and sedge grass with woodpecker feathers.
Elsie Allen collection
Pomo Feather Gift Basket
Pomo
Artist: Suzanne Holder
Meadowlark and Mallard feathers cover this stunning basket. The rim is decorated with Washington clam shell money beads, abalone shell dangles, and quail top knot feathers.
Elsie Allen collection
Beaded Gift Basket
Pomo
Artist: Annie Lake
Elsie Allen collection
Feather Gift Basket
Pomo
Artist unknown
A covering of Chinese pheasant feathers has been sewn into the coiled weave of this basket with feathers attached under every third stitch in alternating coil rows.
Elsie Allen collection
Acorn Drying Basket
Pomo
Artist: Annie Burke
A "bidu sha khun" or acorn drying basket, this beautiful example has light and dark concentric bands of design. Both unpeeled and peeled willow were incorporated for this purpose in the plain twining.
Elsie Allen collection
Burden Basket
Pomo
Artist: Annie Burke
According to ethnographic data, this basket dates from before 1884, and was made in Hopland. It is a Pomo classic, with the flaring cone shape and the bold spiral designs in a lattice bound weave of twined redbud. Sedge grass root forms the diagonally twined weft that has a willow warp foundation.
Elsie Allen Collection
Klamath River Women's Basketry Hat
Klamath River
Twined Construction
Klamath River Twined Storage Basket
Klamath River
Pomo Hopper Basket
Pomo
Artist: Grandmother of Anges Santana
This mortar hopper is more than one hundred years old. Designed to aid the pounding of acorns, the primary weave of plain twining is reinforced with lattice twining.
Elsie Allen collection
Bird Trap
Pomo
Artist: Craig Bates
Woodpecker bird trap made from redbud.
Clam Shell Beads
Clamshell beads hand drilled and strung. These beads were used for currency throughout California prior to European contact.
Coiled Basket
Pomo
Artist: Annie Burke
Willow, sedge grass, and dyed bulrush.
Elsie Allen collection
Yokuts Seed Beater Basket
Foothills Yokuts
Open twined willow construction.
Klamath River Cradle Basket
Open twined willow or hazel with leather lashing.
Twined Storage Basket
Willow and redbud
Inset shows bottom of this beautiful basket.