Ohlone Basket Weaver - Linda Yamane

Kneeling in the midst of the sedge, Linda Yamane sings faithfully an Ohlone song expressing gratitude to the plants after gathering material for her baskets. Once lost due to the Spanish colonization in the 18th century, the Ohlone basket-weaving skill was restored by Linda, who made her first tribal basket in 1994. Woven from willow sticks and sedge roots, the baskets played an essential role in the daily life of Ohlone people, who strongly connected to nature back to the old days. In the revival of the intricate basketry, Linda is motivated to bring about respect and appreciation of the traditional art, and the Ohlone spirit lives on in the mind of the descents is thus aroused.
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[@A_Wee_spook]

I really hope that the Museums give the baskets and other artifacts back to your people. Your basket are really pretty.💜

[@DictatorMeowMeow]

So beautiful and inspirational, I will be teaching my preschoolers about the Ohlone for the month of November and this video will surely help me provide context for our basket project. Thanks for sharing.

[@painterbabewithallie]

I enjoy your respect of nature and the lands, it is so refreshing to see love , joy and care of the history and your ancestors. Thank you for this. we are lacking rich culture today, it seems as though it's being taken from peoples of our planet earth a earth that gives us so much, so freely. Love, Peace and Blessings

[@Zedoutdoors]

Beautiful video, thank you for sharing ~Peace~

[@rickeygreentrades]

YOur voice is beautiful... You show make videos of your songs for the world to hear the Ohlone prayers...

[@titusnelson9499]

Thank you so much for your time and wonderful explanations.

[@7MoonSonoma]

Beautiful ❤

[@kachinaferguson3958]

Proud to be Cherokee and Blackfoot I would love to learn

[@hebjo11]

Thank you for making this video. I was thinking of you today and looked up your name. The photo is a young one of my husband Scott. Janet Burdick from SJSU days

[@yai3804]

Beautiful video,💝 Good wishes from India.

[@katherinetwopipesanderson7418]

Linda, I watched your video and your work is amazing. I have seen your tule boat in a museum up the Carmel River. Lisa, my wife (Lisa Villanpando) is part of the Esselen tribe and would love to meet you someday. We hope to come down this summer (we live in Seattle right now) and walk the land the tribe has recently got up the Little Sur River. I know she would love to meet and talk with you. Mary Ann Carbone (Mayor of Sand City) is her cousin and I think you know her. Maybe we could connect thru her. Keep up the great work, and hope to meet this summer.

[@Nancytoday]

I have a field of sedge, Sedge Meadow, I call it. I have never harvested the roots, but now I shall use my tool like yours and see what I can accomplish down there! Thanks so much!

[@inspirasinureny6886]

Tutorial step by step pleace 🙏

[@marladeenristeen6488]

You do beautiful work! Do you do offer teaching with basket making? My mother taught me how to make pine needle baskets when I was younger and I want to pick it back up again. Your baskets are so beautiful I must do it.

[@nnj6918]

Ms Yamane. Im Marilyn Vance from East Tn. My culture is Scots-Irish Appalachian Hillbilly . I was inspired to make White Oak Egg Baskets when I was about 18. I love what you are doing. Thank you so much.

[@nnj6918]

You are wonderful

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[@PaulaCollins-Cook-o7j]

Thank you for posting and sharing the culture with the youngest and others .

[@yukitogawa7675]

Aloha Linda, I'd like to send you my gratitude. I'm going to send you a letter. I'm in San Francisco now. Yuki Togawa

[@Illusivem8ne]

Thank you for posting this. Many native people are hesitant to post videos like this, and I’m so glad that we are all sharing this information for native peoples around this country

[@ElizabethDanielson-p7y]

Our studio has been commissioned to create a bronze statue depicting Ohlone basket weaving. We would like to talk to Linda Yamane about details surrounding the day and times when basket weaving was a common practice. We need to know anything and everything from hairstyles, clothing, to the age of weavers. How can we connect with Linda Yamane to learn the historical aspects of the Ohlone?

[@eqlzr2]

I was going to make a comment about the California quail topknots on one of the baskets, but decided against it. The video represents a re-birth of a beautiful artform by a talented person/group of people. God bless 'em, even if a few quail may have been involuntarily volunteered to donate their topknots.

[@khakhy]

Did your former relatives cook and pack water in their baskets too?

[@BalaRajiBalaRaji-s2t]

Address

[@godschildyes]

Wow! Everything about her is beautiful! It spills out of her!

[@jacobtiyeqwt3235]

Native Pride.........great video pray our youth fallows behind us in our traditional ways.