american indian art

Plaque, Annie Boone

Baskets richly ornamented with brightly colored feathers are a distinctive art form created by the Pomo Indians of northern California.

Annie Boone, who lived at Upper Lake in Lake County in the early 1900s, was widely acknowledged as the best basket maker of her time. In this masterpiece, she richly transformed an ordinary foundation of coiled plant fiber by adding red, blue, and black feathers and pendants of clam and abalone shell.

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