Newsletter #32 Fall 2000

The 2000 California-Great Basin Indian Basketweavers Gathering—A Photo Album

Amy Hutchins Western Mono/Chuckchansi

Amy, age 17, of Auberry, showed her baby cradle, called a hoop, in the Basketweavers Showcase. It is made of redbud, sedge, and sourberry, with a yarn sash and buckskin. Beautiful work, Amy!

 

The Basketweavers Showcase drew an admiring crowd.

Carol Sanders Fallon Paiute/Shoshone in Learning Circle

Eva Salazar Kumeyaay

Eva, of Alpine, California, made this coiled win- nowing tray of deeergrass foundation, with split sumac and split red base of juncus. "This was my first basket using the sumac. It made me very proud when my grandmother saw the basket. She told me this was like the work of the old ones. She said no one makes baskets like this anymore."

Cecelia Wesly Western Mono

Cecelia, of Auberry, made this coiled basket of deergrass foundation, with sedge and bracken fern root. "This is the first basket I ever made, thanks to Norma [Turner] for teaching me. I could have learned more, but I was sent away to school when I was a small girl. But I'm learning again."

Don Hankins Miwko -Plains Mewuk/Osage

Don, a member of CIBA's Board of Directors, lives in Sacramento. He made this coiled bowl of redbud and sedge on a deergrass foundation. "I started this basket two years ago while still in school. It is my first coiled basket with a pattern and also with these materials together."

Regley Bill Fallon Paiute/Shoshone
Rita Hoel Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo Indians Working on Coiling in Learning Circle

Minerva Soucie Burns Paiute
Working on Burden Basket During Learning Circle

Sisters Ruby Pomona & Ethel Temple Western Mono

Clara Charlie Chuckchansi/Choinumni (standing at left)
Teaches Students the Art of Making a Doll-Sized Cradle Basket

Vivian Olds Yurok
Vivian wove her basket of hemp and wool, using a family design, woven in the Wasco style. "I love to weave! My teacher is a small, humble Yurok basket, an inheritance from my grandmothers, from a time before borders, state lines, and separations. Baskets unite us through the very act of weaving." Lori Sisquoc (center) Cahuilla/Fort Sill Apache
Teaching Coiled Basketry

Pearl Hutchins Western Mono/Chuckchansi

Pearl's small seed gathering basket is made of redbud and sourberry sticks. "I just wanted to try making a small one before I made a larger one."

Mary Jones of Grindstone Rancheria


Marlene "Sam" Montgomery Atsugewi Pitt River
Splitting Pine Root in Preparation for Weaving.

b>Taylor Townsend & His Dad Kelly Townsend Paiute
The Basketweavers Gathering is a Family Affair