page_title: Pomo
section_title: Basket weaving tradition
hierarchical_section_title: Pomo / Basket weaving tradition
caption_attribution_description: English: Indian basket on display, ca.1900 Photograph of an unidentified Indian basket on display, photographed ca.1900. It is shaped like a squat round bowl with a short neck and small mouth. It has vertical stripes consisting of diamonds and triangles. There is a fringe around the circumference of the basket where the side connects with the top. It sits on a dark cloth in front of a dark cloth background. Image 22. Call number: CHS-3298 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-3298 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images; physical objects Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Format: glass plate negatives Microfiche number: 1-162- Archival file: chs_Volume93/CHS-3298.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Subject (adlf): tribal areas Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs&#160;: glass photonegative, photoprint, b&amp;w&#160;; 22 x 17 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Project: USC Accession number: 3298 Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Legacy record ID: chs-m15949; USC-1-1-1-14023 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (file heading): Indians -- Arts and crafts -- Basketry Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Industries; Baskets; Indians of North America -- Basket making
context_page_description: The Pomo are an indigenous people of California. The historical Pomo territory in Northern California was large, bordered by the Pacific Coast to the west, extending inland to Clear Lake, and mainly between Cleone and Duncans Point. One small group, the Northeastern Pomo of the Stonyford vicinity of Colusa County, was separated from the core Pomo area by lands inhabited by Yuki and Wintuan speakers.
  The name pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words and. It originally meant "those who live at red earth hole" and was once the name of a village in southern Potter Valley near the present-day community of Pomo. It may have referred to local deposits of the red mineral magnesite, used for red beads, or to the reddish earth and clay, such as hematite, mined in the area. In the Northern Pomo dialect, -pomo or -poma was used as a suffix after the names of places, to mean a subgroup of people of the place. By 1877, the use of Pomo had been extended in English to mean the entire people known today as the Pomo. The Pomo had 20 chiefs at the same time.
caption: Pomo basket on display, ca.1900
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