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Carrie McGowan Bethel (18981974) was a Mono Lake Paiute – Kucadikadi (
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) basketmaker associated with
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. She was born Carrie McGowan in
Lee Vining, California Lee Vining (formerly Leevining, Poverty Flat, and Lakeview) is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mono County, California, United States. It is located south-southeast of Bridgeport ...
on July 4, 1898, and began making baskets at age twelve. She participated in basket-making competitions in the Yosemite Indian Field Days in 1926 and 1929, and June Lake. She gave basket weaving demonstrations at the 1939
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, as a cultural demonstrator for the Indian Exhibition. She worked several different jobs throughout her life, including making food for road crews and working as a laundress in Tioga Lodge in order to supplement the income given from selling her baskets at trading posts near San Francisco. Bethel was one of a group of Mono-Paiute women who "became known for their exceedingly fine, visually stunning and complex polychrome baskets." Other basket weaving artists in this group included
Nellie Charlie Nellie Charlie (1867–1965) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born in Lee Vining, California, the daughter of tribal headman Pete Jim, and his wife Patsy, also a basket maker. Sh ...
and
Lucy Telles Lucy Parker Telles (/1885–1955/6) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi ( Northern Paiute) and Southern Sierra Miwok (Yosemite Miwok) Native American basket weaver.Giese, Paula"Miwok-Paiute Tradition."''Yosemite Basket Makers - Native America ...
. Her sister, Minnie Mike, was also a basket weaver. Bethel died in Lee Vining, California on February 24, 1974.


Legacy

In 2006, one of her baskets sold at auction for $216,250. This basket had won first prize in the 1926 Yosemite Field Days basket competition. Basket collector James Schwabacher bought some of her larger baskets. Four of her baskets were part of an exhibition on the art of Yosemite which appeared at the
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, the
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, the
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, and the
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from 2006 to 2008.


Gallery

File:Carrie Bethel basket.jpg, Carrie Bethel made this 30" diameter basket from 1931–1935 File:Carrie Bethel basket 2.jpg, Basket made by Carrie Bethel in the early 1930s


See also

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List of Native American artists This is a list of visual artists who are Native Americans in the United States. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 defines "Native American" as being enrolled in either federally recognized tribes or state recognized tribes or "an individu ...
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Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas The visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America and North America, which in ...


Notes


References

* Dalrymple, Larry. ''Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin.'' Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. . * Bonhams & Butterfields, ''The Ella M. Cain Collection of Mono Lake Paiute Basketry.'' 2005. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bethel, Carrie Native American basket weavers Weavers from California Northern Paiute people 1898 births 1974 deaths People from Mono County, California 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists Native American women artists American women basket weavers American basket weavers 20th-century Native American artists 20th-century Native American women Native American people from California