The Art Of The Ohlone Basket

LONGTIMERS PRODUCTIONS AND

THE MONTEREY COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION

PRESENT

LIFE IN THE ARTS

THE ART OF THE OHLONE BASKETS with Linda Yamane

LEARN THE ART OF OHLONE BASKET WEAVING AND ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE BASKETS PLAYED IN THE LIFE OF THE OHLONE INDIANS.

ORIGINAL LIVE BROADCAST DATE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 1999 10:30 - 11:30 AM

There is a life in the arts, and now your students will be able to interact with a professional artist, live from the MCOE studios in Salinas.

Guests include:LINDA YAMANE, a local Ohlone historian, together, with television personality

and series host Maia Carroll, they will introduce your students to the art of the Ohlone .

When you register for this free MCOE-TV program you will receive

* Teacher and student classroom materials and activity packets

*Your students will have the opportunity to participate in one more of the following:

* Learn about the Ohlone culture and it's almost lost art form, basket weaving.

* Learn how the Ohlone people lived before the Europeans arrived.

* Learn how important baskets were for the Ohlone people.

* View a special Basket Exhibit from the Monterey Museum of Art.

Local Ohlone historian, Linda Yamane will demonstrate Ohlone basketweaving techniques and describe the importance of baskets and how they played such a great role in the lives of the Ohlone Indians.

Picking up a hot rock using wooden tongs Adding a hot rock to an Ohlone cooking basket.

Linda will sing original Ohlone songs and stories which she learned from recordings on wax cylinders which were recorded in 1902 by the last surviving members of the Ohlone tribe.

BACKGROUND

All forms of creation begin with an idea. This

initial idea when filtered through different forms of

medium whether it is sculpture, oil painting or cartooning

can provide a new understanding of ourselves and the

world around us. This is an important objective for artists

and is especially critical for those working in a visual

and emotional medium.

Meeting the artists that live within our own

community and viewing their work is important today if

not vital for the young artist. The arts are in danger

today and it is for this reason that students need to be

provided with rich life experiences. It is after all, the

artists whose skills are being developed today, who will

be making an impact on the arts of tomorrow.

PROGRAM GUEST

LINDA YAMANE,Ohlone basketweaver, singer and storyteller, traces her ancestry to the Rumsien Ohlone, the native people of the Monterey area. She has been active in researching and retrieving Rumsien language, song, folklore and basketry. Traditions that were once thought lost. Linda works as a freelance writer, illustrator and graphic designer, and is the newsletter editor for the California Indian Basketweavers Association. She is also a contributing editor to News From Native California magazine.

Linda is the author of Weaving a California Tradition and co-author of In Full View- Three ways of Seeing California Plants. She has researched, compiled and illustrated two collections of Ohlone stories, When the World Ended, How Hummingbird Got Fire & How People Were Made and The Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Other Ohlone Stories.

Her thirty years of experience in enrichment education has included training classes for teachers and docents throughout the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas, six years as an outdoor education teacher for the Youth Science Institute in San Jose, classroom programs and school assemblies, GATE art teacher for San Jose Unified School District, guest speaker in College and university courses, and UC Santa Cruz Extension Instructor.