Identifier: cu31924097644961 (find matches)
Title: Pomo Indian baskets and their makers
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Purdy, Carl, 1861 - 8 August 1945)
Subjects: Indian baskets Pomo Indians
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Out West Co. Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Red-Bud or Mille. was caught in a baiyat-au or fish-net basket, his meal waswinnowed in winnowing baskets and screened in a pa-s6 orsieve basket. When he traveled, his belongings were carried ina bu-gi, the conical burden basket, and these answered forevery purpose for which we use a wheelbarrow or wagon. Ifhe gardened, his fences were of wickerware, and he trapped birdsand game in long cylindrical baskets. On Clear Lake the artof basketry applied to tules was used in making canoes. Was it wonderful, then, that a people to whom baskets wereso much should have exhausted their ingenuity in weaves andshapes, interwoven their mythology and superstition in the
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POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 19 meshes, copied nature in the designs, and lavished the richesttreasures of the chase, together with their precious moneyand the brightest abalone shells from the distant sea shore, onthose gift-baskets which marked the culmination of their art ? Such baskets were the pride of the owner and the envyof his friends ; they were given to visitors, or on weddings, asthe highest possible token of esteem. A woman who was par-ticularly adept in their making had more than a local fame ;and when their lucky possessor died his priceless baskets wereplaced on th^ funeral pyre to accompany, as they fancied, hissoul to the other world. In basketry the Pomos found an outlet for the highest con-ceptions of art that their race was capable of. Protected bytheir isolation from other tribes, they worked out their ideas un-disturbed. With every incentive for excellence they had reacheda height in basketry when the American first disturbed themwhich has never been equaled — not onl

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