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 ...

Graduate students enrolled in Jessica Horton’s curatorial seminar, ARTH602: Woven Vessels, Pomo Futures, stuck their hands in the mud during a unique 2025 spring break field study in northern ...

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.

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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 ...

"Pomo's, ironically, are the best basket weavers in the world," he said. The basket makers weave baskets for specific uses, he said, comparing their use to the American tradition of using labeling ...