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    Lucy Parker Telles (c. 1870 /1885–1955/6) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi (Northern Paiute) and Southern Sierra Miwok (Yosemite Miwok) Native American basket weaver.

  2. She was a frequent prize-winner of Yosemite Indian Field Days basket competitions, and in 1939, her largest and most recognized basket was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Lucy demonstrated basket weaving to park visitors from the 1930s until her death in 1955.

  3. Lucy Telles’s artistic vision and technical skill are revealed in the precisely controlled stitch count and design of her rounded, flat-shouldered basket bowl—a popular type of California basket design.

  4. Lucy Telles was a frequent prize-winner of Yosemite Indian Field Days basket competitions, and in 1939, her largest and most recognized basket was exhibited at the Golden Gate...

  5. Oct 14, 1996 · In 1929, Lucy Telles began a basket project that was to take her 4 years -- the giant basket shown above, which was later to win first prize at the 1939 World's Fair. It's one of the largest, perhaps the largest, fine basket ever made.

  6. Oct 7, 2009 · His mother, Lucy Telles, was a renowned basket maker and, along with the other Yosemite women, passed down their basketry skills to Parker. Parker's daughter Lucy is learning basketry from...

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  8. Lucy was a famous basket maker; she made the largest basket ever made in Yosemite, which is in the park museum. She married John Telles, in 1912, and they lived most of their married life in Yosemite Valley.

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