Native American Studies interested: please buy this book!

https://heydaybooks.com/book/remember-your-relations-the-el/

http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/books/remember-your-relations-the-elsie-allen-baskets-family-friends

"Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends

20.00
Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy

Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends pays tribute not just to baskets but also to those who created them. Photographs and information about more than 30 identified and unidentified weavers, gives us an understanding of their lives, an insight into their relationships with each other, and a glimpse into the remarkable communities and culture from which they came. This book provides an introduction to those not familiar with Pomo basketry and inspiration to those already acquainted with this exceptional art. 128 pages, numerous color and black & white images, softcover only. Published in 1996."

https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Your-Relations-Baskets-Friends/dp/0930588800
Available used at $2.00 and $6.00

REMEMBER YOUR RELATIONS #17/50

Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends
Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy
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This is a gem of a book if you're interested in California history, and Native American Studies.
Brings to life the feeling of reverence for nature, the joy of communion of family.

The basket weavers pass on their baskets to all who would like to learn; Pomo culture previously had only taboo'd retention of baskets which were destroyed when their owners died. These weavers featured often also made baskets for family members upon burial.

If you are interested in anthropology this book is a real treat.

https://kay-mulan.dreamwidth.org/901958.html <-links to get this book yourself.

https://50books-poc.dreamwidth.org/414427.html #17 of 50 POC

Longer review might be forthcoming?

REMEMBER YOUR RELATIONS (review2)

The joys of anthropology, which became after eighteen years after graduating high school my intended major when the first was biology, creates in me a squirming discomfort when I consider how I really really disagree with physical anthropology, or how it is used, which should be in past tense already, just like how I disagree with abortion and spaying and neutering and those diagnosed mentally ill forced to take contraception.

The beauty in a California, ravaged by what I believe to be arson, not "wildfire", these past four years already, when these things are happening even if the sun is not 99 degrees but even lower than 70, for some cases, creates in us a desire to participate.

Pomo basketry was used for bread platters and to catch fish. Other Native American Indians who were Californian also created as did the Pomo baskets for babies, the precursor or divergent evolution before the trendy and hipster baby slings of today.

The steadiness of a beating drum beats out a hope, which I see as a Christian hope, that in these latter days we might have memory.

The ladies who created their Pomo basketry club in this book expired mostly after older ages, but within that 100 year scope after their deaths, these people alive within the past 100 years are not completely identified in 2019, because so few remain who were there, and because so few remain who continue and maintain the work of these passed on elders.

The beauty of the Americas as New Zion is best exemplified in California ethos. All those who are born in America would do well to learn about the Native American Indians in their state, and where they are and whom they may be where they now live.

After what has been lost, it must needs be remembered that recovery means to return what has been lost.


"It reminds us all of a shared responsibility to document the family, local, and community history all around us. Simple actions can make the difference between anonymity and recognition, between rootlessness and having a past."

The wild, wild wilderness mostly subdued, stewardship of life continues. In the cities, where these baskets were immensely prized for decoration, the angel ghosts of the past see us in our daily living, even as the ancestors.

Pomo dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOH4ZehrhI