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Mabel McKay was born on 12 January, 1907 in Nice, California, United States, is a Cache Creek Pomo-Patwin basketweaver and the last sucking doctor in California. Discover Mabel McKay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 12 January, 1907
Birthday 12 January
Birthplace Nice, California, United States
Date of death 31 May, 1993
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Nationality United States

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1907

Mabel McKay (1907–1993) was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo Indians and was of Patwin descent.

She was the last Dreamer of the Pomo people and was renowned for her basket weaving.

McKay was born on 12 January 1907 in Nice in Lake County, California.

Her father was Yanta Boone (Potter Valley Pomo) and her mother was Daisy Hansen (Lolsel Cache Creek Pomo).

She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Sarah Taylor, who taught her both the Long Valley Cache Creek language and how to identify and forage for medicinal plants.

At the age of eight, she was guided by her dreams to weave her first basket.

She did not attend school past the third grade due to a series of illnesses.

Weaving for McKay was a spiritual path, not a craft.

She claimed she was strictly instructed by Spirit as to how and what to weave.

Because of the sacred nature of her weaving, she usually wove in private.

She used sedge for her baskets, and redbud for the red designs, as per Pomo tradition.

Some of her baskets also used feathers.

Her baskets were featured in many newspapers as a prodigy of her craft.

She began giving demonstrations in the State Indian Museum in Sacramento, refusing to sell them and only giving them as gifts.

1952

Prior to the end of World War ll, Mabel married Charlie McKay, with whom she had a son, Marshall (1952-2021).

1960

In the late 1960s McKay was on the Native American Advisory Council for a proposed dam in Dry Creek, which would disturb an ancestral Pomo village site and long-standing beds of sedge.

Although they could not prevent the dam's construction, the council was able to document the site and transplant some of the sedge beds.

McKay also spoke at universities and served as a cultural consultant for anthropologists.

After Charlie died in the 1960s, McKay worked at an apple cannery.

1970

In the late 1970s she began teaching basket-weaving classes for both native and non-native students.

She continued with her baskets until death, and many have been exhibited in museums such as the National Museum of Natural History.

1972

She spoke at the New School in New York with Essie Parrish on March 14, 1972.

1976

In 1976 she was appointed to California's first Native American Heritage Commission.

McKay also became a well known-healer among those in her community.

She was one of the last Pomo dream doctors, and would often travel great distances to tend to her patients.

1993

McKay died on May 31, 1993, and was buried next to Essie Parish in the Kashaya Pomo cemetery.

1997

Greg Sarris published a biography of Mabel in 1997, called Weaving the Dream (University of California Press).

McKay's work has been cited as having inspired other artists, including Dineh artist Leatrice Mikkelsen.

2016

From 2016 to 2017 the Autry Museum of the American West exhibited McKay's work in an exhibit titled "The Life and Work of Mabel McKay".

Her son, Marshall McKay, helped put together the exhibit.