Tag: Comca’ac

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Seri Artisans at the Cabot’s Pueblo Museum

Basket weaver Abe Sanchez asked me to let everyone know that on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 & 17, he is helping to host […]

/ March 17, 2011
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Seri/Comca’ac Women’s Artisans Cooperative at the Autry

Basket weaver Abe Sanchez asked me to let everyone know that on November 6-7 at the Autry Museum, he is helping to host basket […]

/ October 19, 2010
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Anza Borrego cholla, hedgehog, and barrel cactus flowers

Barrel cactus flowers, Ferocactus cylindraceus. In this 2007 photograph from Desemboque on the Sea of Cortez, Raquel Hofer and her aunt, who wields the […]

/ March 27, 2010
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pitahaya, the cardón cactus fruit

      Raquel Hofer pictured above is Gabriel Hofer’s sister. Gabriel, a member of Grupo Tortuguero Comcáac, an organization dedicated to sea turtle […]

/ December 20, 2009
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mesquite nation::Comcáac Nation::turtle nation

Fourth posting on mesquite, this from some research at 3 am reading People of the Desert and Sea by Richard Felger and Mary Beck […]

/ December 20, 2009
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Yokuts-style basket / Abe Sanchez

This is Abe Sanchez’ Yokuts-style basket using redbud and bracken fern for the design elements, and sedge root as the predominant coiling material. He […]

/ October 18, 2009
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