Weaving A Thread : Linda Yamane, Kerri Dick

 Weaving a thread through the SEVEN GENERATIONS:

The Ohlone Basket Weaver Who Revived a Rumsen Artistic Tradition

Linda Yamane taught herself the intricate and nearly extinct craft over 100 years after the last Rumsen basketmakers died.

 

Isa Farfan October 13, 2024

Linda Yamane holding a coiled basket (all images courtesy Linda Yamane)

For most of her early life, Linda Yamane thought Ohlone fine coil basketry had disappeared from the world.  But when she was a Master’s student at San Jose State University, she saw a poster displaying Ohlone baskets and lists of which institutions held them. Four decades later, Yamane says, she is one of the only people practicing Ohlone coil basketry aside from her one apprentice.

Yamane, who lives in Seaside, California, is a member of the Rumsen Ohlone Tribal Community, indigenous to the Monterey Bay, Carmel River Valley, and Point Lobos area in Northern California. Ohlone refers to a linguistic association of Northern California Indigenous peoples who share languages belonging to the Penutian family.  Rumsen is one of eight linguistic communities under the Ohlone umbrella. 

KEEP READING: https://hyperallergic.com/957865/linda-yamane-ohlone-basket-weaver-who-revived-a-rumsen-artistic-tradition/

 

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Master Chilkat weaver Kerri Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida, Tlingit, Kootenay), whose artistry fused traditional carving, weaving, and beading practices that she learned from family members and shared with her local Haida Gwaii community, died at age 41, as confirmed by her family in an announcement posted yesterday to Facebook. The cause of death has not been made public.

Kerri Dick, Chilkat Weaver of Wonders, Dies at 41