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Red fully feathered three-rod coiled ceremonial plaque with handle
Mary Posh Big Valley Pomo and Elem Pomo (Lake County, California)
Not on view
Crimson plaques like this were valued both for their plush beauty and for the effort involved in collecting the necessary feathers and fashioning the clamshell beads and gleaming abalone pendants that adorn them. Also treasured for their spiritual significance, they were filled with balls of ground seed meal and hung from poles during seasonal community celebrations. Mary Posh worked for eleven months on this basket that required feathers from some five hundred birds.
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