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date: label: Date created
content: 1910-1920
name: label: Culture/People
content: Kashaya Pomo
label: Artist/Maker
content: Mary Porter Smith (Mrs. Martin Smith), Kashaya Pomo, ca. 1870-ca. 1912; Teresa Lozuito, Kashaya Pomo; Emily Robinson, Kashaya Pomo; Rhoda Lawson Pinole (Rhodie Lawson), Kashaya Pomo, b. ca. 1881; Louise Boseton, Kashaya Pomo, b. ca. 1858; Ella Parrish Pike, Kashaya Pomo, b. ca. 1897; Lizzie Parrish (Mrs. Stephen Parrish), Kashaya Pomo, 1875-1922; M
label: Previous owner
content: Martin Smith, Kashaya Pomo, b. ca. 1870
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
notes: label: Collection History
content: Begun by Mary Smith in 1910 as a demonstration piece intended for the Panama-Pacific Exposition to be held in San Francisco, California, in 1915, and completed over the next ten years by other weavers, including Mary Smith's daughters; exhibited at the California Exposition and State Fair in 1923 by Mary Smith's husband Martin Smith (Kashaya Pomo); purchased by MAI in 1927 from an unknown source using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Arena and Healdsburg; Mendocino County; California; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Kashaya Pomo
label: See related items
content: Containers and Vessels
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 15/4229
label: Barcode
content: 154229.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Containers and Vessels
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Basket
label: Media/Materials
content: Willow, sedge root, bulrush root, redbud, shell beads
label: Techniques
content: Coiled