Elsie Allen Artist

Elsie Allen (22 September 1899 – 31 December 1990) was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California, significant as for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques and sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art form.

Personal facts

Birth dateSeptember 22, 1899
Birth place
California
Nationality
Pomo people
Date of deathDecember 31, 1990
Place of death
California

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Artist

Field of work
Basket weaving
training at
Autodidacticism

Topical connections

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Elsie Allen on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/basket/elsieall.html
  2. http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_remember_your_relations.html