Pomo

Pomo gift basket. Three rod coiled on willow rods with sedge sewing element. Design in dyed bulrush. Decorated with red woodpecker scalp feathers, quail topknots and clamshell disk beads....

Pomo gift basket, Lake County style. Three-rod coiled on a foundation of willow rods with a split sedge sewing element. Decorated with mallard duck and meadowlark feathers. Per Craig Bates there...

Burden basket. Description: Pomo; twined open-work. Consition: Fair, one break near bottom, wooden hoop wired to inside of rim. Remarks: Has cardboard tag with string, but sticker with number...

Basket, ceremonial, coiled weave. Twenty-five stitches to an inch, design in fern root (?) ornamented with quail tips and small shell wampum, sewed on with turquoise blue beads, flexible handle...

Wampum, long string

"String of shell beads. Strung on string."(Reggiardo,11/78)[vv,6/91]

Craig Bates verified information, 7/91.

Basket, trinket, small, very fine, coiled weave, black pattern. Blue bead decoration.

"Pomo attribution."(Reggiardo,79)[vv,6/91]

"Pomo sedge and bulrush root basket with blue glass...

Basket, twined, (for carrying). Design in redbud.

"Wedding basket made by bride's mother for carrying cakes and bread."(Roseberry)[vv,6/91]

"The above information is fanciful and...

Basket trap, open work. For catching woodpeckers

"Creek dogwood shoots, plain twining. An excellent example of this little collected basket." (Craig Bates, 10/91)

Miniature Pomo basket

"Sedge root and bulrush root, not willow and redbud as originally catalogued. Gilham was a dealer in Pomo basketry." (Craig Bates, 7/91)

Pomo mortar hopper. Lattice(?) twined of sedge(?) with design in redbud. Rim wrapped with grapevine. In good condition: bottom rim abraded and discolored.

Information taken from gallery book: spoon. mussell shell. Pomo. late 19th-early 20th C. woman's eating spoon.

Basket tray "Bam-Tush" weave. Large. Hopper for mortar stone

"Twined weave, coiled border around rim. Two bands of elevated twined weave. Repared with root material, fabric, and leather...

Basket bowl, "tee" weave. Large.

"Ten bands of design in redbud from rim to base. Very good condition."(Reggiardo,10/78)[vv,6/91]

"Sedge and redbud, lattice twined. Used for...

Basket, coiled, (bowl). Redbud decoration (?).

Made for sale to non-Indians, ca. 1905. 3-rod, sedge and bulrush. Once had quail topknots in upper triangles."(C. Bates, B. Bernstein, 7/91...

Basket, large twined weave, red decoration. For storage, slip made when material received dated 10/5/36 "Pomo, probably Ukiah or north of Ukiah area storage basket. Probably conifer root...

Basket, coiled, (bowl). Fern root decoration (?). "Poma Tribe, Humbolt Co.; Maker unknown; acq. 1911."(cat. in donor file)[vv,5/91] "Poorly trimmed inside, sedge and bulrush, made...

Basket, coiled, (oval bowl). Fern root, redbud and wampum dec. "Made for sale, lower Clear Lake, ca. 1910. Sedge root, redbud, and bulrush. Single rod."(C. Bates, B. Bernstein, 7/91)...

Basket bowl, woven

"Pomo attribution."(Reggiardo,4/79)[vv,6/91]

"Diagonal twine basket with redbud and sedge root. Unusual design, Ukiah area; ca. 1900." (Bruce Bernstein/Craig...

Basket, covered with red & blue feathers. Pendants of glass beads & abalone shell row of shell wampum, & row of quail tips around border. Type called "Sun Basket" "...

Basket, miniature

"Sedge, not willow as originally catalogued." (Bruce Bernstein and Craig Bates, 7/91)