Extremely fine Pomo boat basket with red feather remnants, shell beads and quail fobs on rim. Under the name Pomo are some 30 small tribes. The tribes which made these baskets live in Lake Sonoma and Mendocino counties, and are examples of their best work. The materials used are California sedge, nut pine, black rooted sedge, Sitka willow, Douglass spruce beaked hazel, California flax, red fir, poison oak, bracken, bullrush, nutmeg, Oregon grape, syringa, maiden-hair fern, digger pine, green briar, willow, redbud, bracken, calycanthus and hazelnut.
PERIOD: Late 19th Century
ORIGIN: California - Pomo, Native American