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Southern Northwest Coast Weavers
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MELISSA
PETERSON (Wa Lsi Bot) Makah
Melissa lives at Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation.
She
learned weaving from Irene Ward over 30 years ago, as well
as
from Nora Barker, Lina McGee, Susan Johnson, Linda Colfax,
and Margaret Irving. She also learned by studying the old
Ozette styles found in the Makah Cultural and Research Center's
collection. Melissa teaches basketry throughout the region.
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YVONNE PETERSON
Chehalis
Yvonne Peterson is the daughter of Hazel Pete.
She learned to
weave from her mother. Yvonne teaches for The Evergreen State
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TED PLASTER, JR. Lummi
Ted Plaster learned to weave from Bill and Fran James
and Lillian and Eileen Penn. He prefers weaving Northwest
Coast designs that include the whale, canoe, and seabird.
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LOUISA PULSIFER
Skokomish
Louisa Pulsifer was born in 1882 in the last cedar longhouse
on the Hood Canal. She is credited with saving the Twana language
and preserving tribal customs and basketry skills. For many
years
she owned a "Nootka" canoe which she paddled up
and down the Hood Canal to reach the gathering places for
roots and fibers used in traditional foods and medicines.
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SI-A-GUT Cowlitz
Judge James Wickersham, a resident of Tacoma before he
moved to Juneau, Alaska, provided us with this information
about Si-a-gut: "Si-A-Gut, a Nisqually basket maker she
originally came from Cowlitz where her people lived, makes
the finest baskets on Puget Sound. In July 1899 I bought several
baskets from her she sat on my floor and told me her history
and about her baskets: I presented her with a handsome cup
and saucer after paying her for her baskets, and also caused
her picture to be made." James Wickersham
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HELEN (CULTEE)
TEO Quinault
Helen Teo was raised on the Skokomish Reservation
by her
grandmother Emily Purdy Miller (black-and-white photo),
a
famous Skokomish traditional weaver (see the dolls in
the
Basketry for Children case). "I still gather enough
to share with
elders or those unable to do so. I enjoy basketry making,
it's very
relaxing to me. I feel proud to carry on our heritage
this way."
This basket is based on one of Emily Miller's designs.
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LYNN WILBUR-FOSTER
Skokomish
Lynn Foster is an enrolled member of the Skokomish Tribe.
Her great aunt, Louisa Pulsifer, was a strong influence on
her, along with Burt Wilbur and Dennis Allen. Lynn's focus
and commitment is to maintain and keep alive all ancient traditional
skills, styles, and designs while weaving with only roots,
barks, grasses, and ferns.
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FRANCES (FANNY) WILLIAMS (Naa-naas-a-tuks)
Nuu-chah-nulth, Huu-ay-aht (Ohiat)
Fanny Williams was famous for her finely wrapped-twined
cedar bark, swamp grass, and beach grass baskets. She began
weaving by watching her Auntie make baskets. She lived with
her family in Bamfield, on the west coast of Vancouver Island
until her death in May 1996. She is buried in the Sarita Reserve
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