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Roots of Beauty| 16mins
Director: Jed Riffe & Sherri Smith Ferri | Producer: Jed Riffe & Sherri Smith Ferri
Focus Years: 1999 | Country: United States
Subject Tags: americas, art, creativity, environment, united states
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
This richly detailed documentary illustrates the complex processes utilized by Pomo Indian weavers of northern California to cultivate, manage, harvest, and prepare the indigenous plant materials used in their world-famous baskets. The wealth of time, specialized knowledge, and skills involved in transforming living plants into beautiful woven vessels are under-appreciated, though essential, components of the basket weaver's art. The video also demonstrates, in concrete ways, the often-overlooked sophistication of California Indian land use and management and shows how mainstream America's differing worldviews on land use are endangering the traditional plant materials of the Pomo.
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Roots of Beauty | 16mins

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