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One-rod coiled basket
Clint McKay Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California)
Not on view
It is unusual for a Pomo man to create fine, decorated baskets. These have typically been the domain of women, while men have fashioned the baskets used to hunt birds and to catch fish. Made from whole branches, the traps are large, rough, and plain. Some male weavers’ work, however, rivals the quality of women’s basketry, as seen in McKay’s pieces and those of Eastern Pomo artist William Benson, whose ear sticks are on display in the next gallery.
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