Volume 40 / Number 1
1998
Special Edition: Pomo Indian Basket Weavers, their Baskets and the Art Market
On The Cover: Laura Burris Willum (1895-1919), a Pomo Indian basket weaver and her 3-rod coiled boat basket. Collection Object Number: NA7946 Photo by H. C. Meredith, ca. 1905. UPM Neg. No. S4-140386
Vol. 40 / No. 1
By: Pamela Hearne Jardine
Exhibition on Pomo Indian Weavers and Basketry
This special issue of Expedition is devoted to Pomo Indian ethnohistory and basketry and accompanies the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s […]
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By: Victoria Patterson
Change and Continuity: Transformations of Pomo Life
The towns and small cities of Northern California that cluster between San Francisco and Eureka are best known today for […]
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By: Judith Berman
Building a Collection: Native Californian Basketry at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
One afternoon in April of 1905, a Pennsylvania Dutch mill owner named Henry K. Deisher stopped by the University Museum […]
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Vol. 40 / No. 1
By: Sherrie Smith-Ferri
The Development of the Commercial Market for Pomo Indian Baskets
“CANASTROMANIA” Term for “basket fever” coined by Smithsonian curator Otis Mason, from the Latin word canistra, meaning basket (1904:187) Attracted […]
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By: Sally McLendon
Pomo Basket Weavers in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Collections
The Deisher collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum is the best-documented single collection of California Indian baskets from the […]
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