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Miniature one-rod coiled basket

Clint McKay Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California)

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Clint McKay learned basketmaking from his "aunties," master Pomo weavers Laura Fish Somersal (1892–1990) and Mabel McKay (1907–1993). Both women excelled at miniatures, and McKay continues to craft these small treasures today. Emphasizing the intergenerational nature of his basketry, McKay commented, "Those baskets and those roots that we use, those are the roots that bind me to my ancestors...It is the very essence of who we are as Pomo."

Miniature one-rod coiled basket, Clint McKay (Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California), born 1965), Willow shoot foundation, sedge root weft, and dyed bulrush root weft, Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California)

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Miniature one-rod coiled basket, Clint McKay (Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California), born 1965), Willow shoot foundation, sedge root weft, and dyed bulrush root weft, Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California)
Miniature one-rod coiled basket, Clint McKay (Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California), born 1965), Willow shoot foundation, sedge root weft, and dyed bulrush root weft, Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun (Sonoma County, California)

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