Carrie Bethel
Carrie Bethel | |
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Bethel c. 1929 | |
| Born | Carrie McGowan Bethel July 4, 1898 |
| Died | February 24, 1974 |
| Nationality | Kucadikadi |
| Known for | Basket weaving |
| Spouse | Harry Bethel |
| Awards | 1926 Yosemite Field Days competition |
Carrie McGowan Bethel (1898–1974) was a Mono Lake Paiute – Kucadikadi (Northern Paiute)[1] basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born Carrie McGowan in Lee Vining, California on July 4, 1898,[2] 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.[3] She gave basket weaving demonstrations at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition,[4] as a cultural demonstrator for the Indian Exhibition.[3]
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.[2][3]
Bethel was one of a group of Mono-Paiute women who "became known for their exceedingly fine, visually stunning and complex polychrome baskets."[5] Other basket weaving artists in this group included Nellie Charlie and Lucy Telles. Her sister, Minnie Mike, was also a basket weaver.[6]
Bethel died in Lee Vining, California on February 24, 1974.[3]
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.[7]
Basket collector James Schwabacher bought some of her larger baskets.[2][3] Four of her baskets were part of an exhibition on the art of Yosemite which appeared at the Autry National Center, the Oakland Museum of California, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from 2006 to 2008.[8]
Gallery
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Carrie Bethel made this 30" diameter basket from 1931–1935
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Basket made by Carrie Bethel in the early 1930s
See also
Notes
- ^ Dalrymple, 3
- ^ a b c Matuz, Roger, ed. (1998). St. James guide to native North American artists. Detroit, MI.: St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-221-0.
- ^ a b c d e "Autry's Collections Online –". collections.theautry.org. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
- ^ Trainer, Laureen (2006). Amy Scott (ed.). Yosemite: Art of an American Icon. Los Angeles and Berkeley: Autry National Center and University of California Press. pp. 194. ISBN 0-520-24922-4.
- ^ Bibby, Brian (2006). "Native American Art of the Yosemite Region". In Amy Scott (ed.). Yosemite: Art of an American Icon. Los Angeles and Berkeley: Autry National Center and University of California Press. pp. 97–101. ISBN 0-520-24922-4.
- ^ "The Pacific Historian". The Pacific Hitorian. 24 (4). Scholarly Commons. Winter 1980.
- ^ "Property from the Ella M. Cain Collection: A Paiute polychrome basket". San Francisco: Bonhams. 2006. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ^ Scott, Amy (2006). Yosemite: Art of an American Icon. Los Angeles and Berkeley: Autry National Center and University of California Press. pp. 222. ISBN 0-520-24922-4.
References
- Dalrymple, Larry. Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. ISBN 0-89013-337-9.
- Bonhams & Butterfields, The Ella M. Cain Collection of Mono Lake Paiute Basketry. 2005. ISBN 9780977670802