Annie Burke and Elsie Allen, Pomo Basket Weavers
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Title
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Annie Burke and Elsie Allen, Pomo Basket Weavers
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Creator
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Kim Brown, California State Library, "Celebrate California"
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Type
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Institutional biography page
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Rights
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No restrictions
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What It Reveals
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The poster reduces Pomo basketry to the anonymous label “Pomo Indian Basket”, even though named Pomo weavers were actively working at the same time. One of them was Annie Burke, born in 1876, who asked her daughter Elsie Allen not to follow the Pomo custom of burying or burning a weaver’s baskets after her death. Those preserved baskets later became the foundation of the Elsie Allen Basket Collection.
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Whose Perspective Is Centered
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Closer to Pomo voice, though still institutionally authored
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Category of Exclusion Addressed
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Anonymity of named makers
