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Page: of 12
Fig, 3.
publicize their efforts. Chief William Fuller,
Central Miwok from Tuolumne County, bor
rowed a war bonnet and a buckskin suit for
such occasions from Benjiman W. Hathaway,
curator of the State Indian Museum in Sacramento (Fig. 4). Hathaway, a non-Indian,
was apparently instrumental in creating
Indian regalia for many of these people
involved with such presentations. He made
dresses and other objects for Indian people to
use at such meetings, as well as for women to
wear while demonstrating basketry at the
State Indian Museum. Drawing from his own
extensive collection of Indian material, he
made objects not representative of any one
group, but still unmistakably Indian (J. Dyson
and L.Dyson, personal communications
1974-1980; B. Bernstein, personal communiA dance at the Indian Field Days, Yosemite Valley, 1920s. Note the wide range of costuming styles.
Left to right, Wesley Wilson, unidentified, Chris Brown, unidentified, unidentified, Mary Wilson, and
Maggie Howard, Negative number 2120, courtesy National Park Service, Yosemite Collections.
cation 1979). Plains style cloth leggings were
decorated with drops of Pomo clamshell disc
beads and abalone pendants; chokers were
made of Yurok pine-nut beads and clam
shells; pseudo-Plains dresses were festooned
with strings of glass beads, abalone pendants,
small Glycymeris shells, and designs outlined
in dentalium.
Chris Brown, “Chief Lemee” of the
Southern Miwok of Yosemite Valley, was a
close friend of Hathaway (Fig. 5). He borrowed objects from Hathaway to use in
programs he gave in Yosemite and throughout
California while on speaking tours (J. Dyson
and L.Dyson, personal communication)).
Hathaway was made a Miwok by Lemee ina
ceremony held at Sacramento’s Capital Park
in November of 1930 during which they both
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