Kodina

Grace Carpenter Hudson American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 765

Seated on a woven tule mat, Pomo weaver Mollie Wright Jackson pauses her work on a one-rod coiled basketry tray to watch elder John Scott pack a tobacco pipe. Jackson’s weaving materials are visible at left in a basket woven by her mother-in-law, Jenny Jackson, underscoring the intergenerational nature of Pomo basketry. In the background, Hudson painted rows of hops—a predominant crop in the Ukiah Valley of northern California. In the wake of White settlement, many Pomo men picked hops to earn a living wage, while women often wove baskets for sale to non-Native collectors, such as Hudson, who owned the four baskets featured in this work.

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