Mabel McKay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mabel McKay

Cache Creek Pomo-Patwin basketweaver and the last sucking doctor in California

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1907

Place of Birth: Nice, California, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1993

Profession: basket weaver

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Mabel McKay

  • 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 a basket making prodigy. Greg Sarris published a biography of Mabel, called Weaving the Dream (University of California Press, 1997), which follows Mabel’s way of storytelling – a meandering one which describes her work as a dreamer, doctor, and basket weaver.

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