Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . A Cache Creek Man-Basket. IPlaU ti\ those of the Pomos to know that they were very interesting,as were, their religious beliefs. Physically the Pomos were rather fine specimens. Especiallywas this true about Clear Lake. Many of the men were sixfeet high, of powerful build, and weighing one hundred andeighty to two hundred and twenty pounds. The women wereshort and very broad. Probably the heavy loads they carriedfrom childhood up had something to do with this. Interesting as the customs of the Pomos are, they wouldhardly have been heard of away from the r
Pomo Indian baskets and their makers . A Cache Creek Man-Basket. IPlaU ti\ those of the Pomos to know that they were very interesting,as were, their religious beliefs. Physically the Pomos were rather fine specimens. Especiallywas this true about Clear Lake. Many of the men were sixfeet high, of powerful build, and weighing one hundred andeighty to two hundred and twenty pounds. The women wereshort and very broad. Probably the heavy loads they carriedfrom childhood up had something to do with this. Interesting as the customs of the Pomos are, they wouldhardly have been heard of away from the region they inhabitwere it not that as basket makers they are wonderfully pro-ficient. \. POMO INDIAN BASKETS. 17 Into the life of a Porno, baskets^entered^_everj day from^hisbirth to his death. He was cradled in a pappoose basket, andin it, hung by a broad band on his mothers brow, he made hisearly journeys. His home was a great thatched basket, histoys^ere baskets modeled after the large ones that he from a da-14, or flat basket, and drank fromgi round tci-m£L. The seeds from which his meal wasmade were ground in amu-tci, or mortar basket, andhis fish and meat were cooked in large mush bowls or tci-mas, and a large tci-m^ was his water-bucket. His fish
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