Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weavers and their Legacies
Benton Museum of Art Pomona College 120 West Bonita Avenue, Claremont, CA, United StatesMore than 140 Cahuilla baskets are housed at the Benton Museum of Art, and though they are aesthetically beautiful—which is part of what makes them art—they are not merely museum “specimens.” Rather, they represent the continuous relationships that Cahuilla people have with their traditions, ancestral knowledge, lands, and one another. Many of the Cahuilla baskets…