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Carrie Bethel

Carrie McGowan Bethel was a Mono Lake Paiute – Kucadikadi basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born Carrie McGowan in Lee Vining, California on July 4, 1898, and began making baskets at age twelve. She participated in basket-making competitions in the Yosemite Indian Field Days in 1926 and 1929, and June Lake. She gave basket weaving demonstrations at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, as a cultural demonstrator for the Indian Exhibition.

Legacy
In 2006, one of her baskets sold at auction for $216,250. This basket had won first prize in the 1926 Yosemite Field Days basket competition. Basket collector James Schwabacher bought some of her larger baskets. == Gallery ==
Gallery
File:Carrie Bethel basket.jpg|Carrie Bethel made this 30" diameter basket from 1931–1935 File:Carrie Bethel basket 2.jpg|Basket made by Carrie Bethel in the early 1930s ==See also==
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