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Name

Dat-So-La-Lee

Alternate name:

Dabuda

Da-Bu-Da

Dat So La Lee

Datsolalee

Datsolali

Dobuda

Louisa Keyser

Wide Hips

Heritage

Washoe

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1835-1925

Date Note

birth date is approximate, circa1835, also stated to be 1850; death date December 6, 1925

Birthplace

Sheridan

Nevada

Specialty / Medium

basketwork

basket

coiled basket

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

Artist represented in the Native American Artists Collection (RC62) of the Heard Museum Archives.

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Dat-So-La-Lee

Exhibits

Woven Legacy: a Collection of Dat-So-La-Lee Works, 1900-1921. Gatekeeper's Museum. Tahoe City, California. May 1, 2005 - October 1, 2006.
Of Grasses, Ferns and Trees: California and Great Basin Baskets. Heard Museum North. Scottsdale, Arizona. On view on April 9, 2004.
The Art of the Indian Basket in North America. University of Kansas Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas. On view on August 24, 1975.

Publications

Found 39 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
. "Queen of the Washoe Basketmakers". Indian Trader, vol. 17, no. 5 (May 1986). 1986.	9	1986	Newspaper article.
. "Renown Washoe Basketmaker's Minatures on Display". Indian Trader, vol. 36, no. 8 (August 2005). 2005.	12-13	2005	Newspaper article.
. "The Most Beautiful Basket". Masterkey, vol. 25, March-April 1951. 1951.	cover, 68	1951
. "Washo". Arizona Highways, vol. 51, no. 7 (July 1975). 1975.	26-27	1975
. "What is Native American Art?". Art-Talk, March 1986. 1986.	41	1986	Newspaper article
. Indian Art: Dat-So-La-Lee. Sparks, Nevada: Dave's Printing and Publishing. 1972.		1972	Reprinted circa 1972 from a brochure published about 1920 in Carson City, Nevada.
Bataille, Gretchen M. (editor). Native American Women: a Biographical Dictionary. New York, New York: Garland Publishing. 1993.	71-72	1993
Bates, Craig D. and Brian Bibby. "Maidu Weaver, Amanda Wilson". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3 (summer 1984). 1984.	38	1984	Includes bibliographical references.
Cerveri, John, Mrs. "Queen of the Basketmakers". Indian Life, vol. 41, no. 1 (August 1961). 1961.	30-31	1961	Indian Life magazine is an official publication of the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association, Gallup, New Mexico.
Champagne, Duane (editor). ~The Native North American Alamanac: a Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, Inc.. 1993.	1039, 1040	1993
Cohadas, Marvin. "Washoe Basketry". American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts, vol. 3, no. 4 (July 1983). 1983.	7, 9-13,19-21, 23-24, 26-27, 30, back cover	1983
Cohodas, Marvin. "Dat So La Lee's Basketry Design". American Indian Art, vol. 1, no. 4 (autumn 1976). 1976.	22-31	1976	Includes bibliographical references.
Cohodas, Marvin. "Lena Frank Dick, an Outstanding Washoe Basket Weaver". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 4, no. 4 (autumn 1979). 1979.	34, 36-37,90	1979
Cohodas, Marvin. "Sarah Mayo and Her Contemporaries: Representational Designs in Washoe Basketry". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 6, no. 4 (autumn 1981). 1981.	53, 54, 59	1981	Also discusses Washo basket makers Maggie Mayo James and Lillie James; includes bibliographical references.
Cohodas, Marvin. "The Breitholle Collection of Washoe Basketry". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 9, no. 4 (autumn 1984). 1984.	38-49	1984	A detailed analysis of a private collection of Washoe basketry which has only recently been made available for study. Acquired by William Breitholle between 1907 and 1916, the collection includes seventeen pieces, each of which is discussed according to technique and weaver, shedding light on minor aspects of the careers of two major Washoe weavers, Tootsie Dick and Louisa Keyser (Dat so la lee).
Cohodas, Marvin. "Washoe Innovators and Their Patrons". In: Wade, Edwin L. (editor) and Carol Haralson (coordinating editor). The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution. New York, New York: Hudson Hills Press. 1986.	203-220	1986	1st edition. Published in association with Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collings, Jerold L. "Arizona's Treasury of Prized Indian Baskets". Arizona Highways, vol. 51, no. 7 (July 1975). 1975.	26	1975
Day, Sara, editor. HEART OF THE CIRCLE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY EDWARD S. CURTIS. (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks). 1997.	85	1997
Fallon, Carol. THE ART OF THE INDIAN BASKET IN NORTH AMERICA. Lawrence: University of Kansas Museum of Art.. 1975.	12-13,28-29	1975
Folwell, Jody, Terrol Dew Johnson, Ann E. Marshall, Diana F. Pardue, Tristan Reader and Diza Sauers. Hold Everything! Masterworks of Basketry and Pottery from the Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2001.	69	2001	Catalog of an exhibition.
Frazier, Patrick (compiler). Portrait Index of North American Indians in Published Collections. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. 1996.	125	1996	Includes index; available both in print and online	View
Gigli, Jane Green. "Dat So La Lee, Queen of the Washo Basket Makers". In: Gigli, Jane Green, Donald R. Tuohy, Phil C. Orr, Charles E. Rozaire, and J.M. Adovasio. Collected Papers on Aboriginal Basketry. Carson City, Nevada: Nevada State Museum. 1974.	i-iii, 1-27	1974	Includes bibliographical references and portraits of Dat So La Lee. Originally published as Nevada State Museum Popular Series, no. 3, 1967.
Gogol, John M. "Traditional Arts of the Indians of Western Oregon". American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts, vol. 4, no. 2 (January 30, 1984). 1984.		1984
Good, Owen S. . "Famed Basket in Spotlight at Fenimore House Museum". THE DAILY STAR (Oneonta, NY). 1998.	n.p.	1998
Green, Christopher. "Beyond Inclusion: Several Museums Are Now Displaying Indigenous Artifacts in Galleries of American Art, but This Gesture Doesn't Always Honor the Values of the Cultures that Created These Works". Art in America, vol. 107, no. 2 (February 2019). 2019.	77	2019	Includes bibliographical references.
Hickson, Jane Green. DAT SO LA LEE: QUEEN OF THE WASHO BASKETMAKERS. Carson City: Nevada State Museum, Popular Series (No. 3), December. 1967.	1-30	1967
Hirschfelder, Arlene. Artists and Craftspeople. New York, New York: Facts on File. 1994.	1-8	1994	Artists include Dat So La Lee, Nampeyo, Kiowa Five, Maria Martinez, Allan Houser, Oscar Howe, Helen Cordero, Pablita Velarde, Bill Reid, Charles Loloma, Stanley R. Hill, Eva Wolfe, Jimmy Toddy (Beatien Yazz), Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Lawrence Beck, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Harry Fonseca, and Rhonda Holy Bear. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hunt, David C. "Oil: A Medium for Industry and Art". FOUR WINDS, 1 (Spring). 1980.	43, 44	1980
Kania, John, Alan Blaugrund, and Anthony Richardson (photographer). Antique Native American Basketry of Western North America: a Comprehensive Guide to Identification. Seattle, Washington: Marquand Books. 2014.	28-29, 37, 165-166	2014	Includes bibliographical references and index, with 312 pages.
Markowitz, Harvey (editor). American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. 1999.	82-83	1999
Matuz, Roger (editor). ~St. James Guide to Native North American Artists. Detroit, Michigan: St. James Press. 1997.	284-287	1997
McCoy, Ronald, Ph.D. DATSOLALEE: THREE MASTERPIECES OF WASHOE BASKETRY. GALLERY 10, Inc., Scottsdale. 1989.		1989
Parke-Bernet Galleries. The Green Collection of American Indian Art - Part I, American Indian Bark and Basketry Vessels, Friday, November 19, at 10:15 AM; American Indian Art, Friday, November 19, at 2 PM. New York, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries. 1971.	38-45, back cover	1971	Catalogue sale number 3271; auction held at Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, Friday, November 19, 1971 at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Porter, Frank W., III (editor). The Art of Native American Basketry: a Living Legacy. New York, New York: Greenwood Press. 1990.	158-164, 186	1990
Porter, Frank W., III (compiler). Native American Basketry: an Annotated Bibliography. New York, New York: Greenwood Press. 1988.	240	1988
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors: a History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall and Co.. 1990.	5-7	1990	Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-603) and index.
Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of Native American Women. New York, New York: Facts on File. 1998.	81-84	1998	In series: Encyclopedia of Women
Tisdale, Shelby J. "Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection". American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 26, no. 3 (summer 2001). American Indian Art Magazine. 2001.	55, 58, 63	2001
Wikipedia contributors. "Dat So La Lee". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat_So_La_Lee. 2017.		2017	Current entry for Dat So La Lee on Wikipedia (viewed June 6, 2018)	View

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