SILETZ NewS
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 41, No. 6
June 2013
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
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Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
MemorialDayCeremony•May27,2013
Siletz Tribal Community Center and Paul washington Cemetery
Cody Blacketer (above, right) stands with
Memorial Day speaker Ed Ben, a Navy
and Air Force veteran, after Blacketer
accepted an Oregon Honorable Service
Medal on behalf of his grandfather,
Kenneth Blacketer, a Marine Corps
veteran, from Tony Molina.
A stormy morning, as seen in the rain-
drops on the wreath (left) at the Veterans
Memorial and the rose (right), drove the
ceremony indoors to the Siletz Tribal
Community Center. See more photos on
page 11.
Stineff donates basket, photo of weaver, documentation of hop yard days
By Robert Kentta, Cultural Resources
Director
Pat Stineff, retired principal of Sweet
Home High School, recently was going
through some things that her husband
had acquired over the years. She thinks
he bought a Siletz basket complete
with documentation from a fundraiser
in the Monmouth/Independence area.
She decided that the purse basket and
accompanying info belonged back with
our Siletz people and brought it to Siletz
on May 19.
The Siletz Indians came to the Indepen-
dence vicinity each year, in the early fall
to pick hops and usually camped on Ash
Creek adjoining Monmouth on the north.
… It was a sort of vacation for them and
a way to earn money from hop-picking
as well as trading their handwork. … My
mother, Lena Butler Powell, made friends
with them, one being “Old Annie” whose
picture, taken with a glass negative is
attached.
Clares C. Powell
Monmouth, Oregon”
Lena Butler-Powell, mother of Clares
C. Powell, purchased baskets from Siletz
members at the hop yards starting in about
1900. This particular basket, a nice purse
basket in pristine condition, was possibly
made by a weaver she referred to as “Old
Annie” in a photo that was taken at that
time, ca 1900-1915. Clares Powell appar-
ently donated the basket to the fundraiser
where Stineff’s husband acquired it.
On the back of the photo (which is
of a robust, strong-featured older lady)
it says:
In a letter dated Sept. 22, 1975,
Clares Powell wrote the following about
the basket:
We do not have a photo that seems
to match the features of this weaver and
now we’re looking to narrow possible
candidates. If your family has an Anne or
Annie in the tree and she would have been
about 65-75 years old in 1900-1915, was
strong-featured and a weaver, we would
be grateful if you had photos to compare
with this image so we can positively
“This Indian basket is from my
Mother’s collection which she acquired
from the Siletz Indians. Starting about
1900 she began trading apples plus cash
for baskets which the Indians made. …
“Old Annie the (“s” word we won’t
repeat here) has a painted chin (tattooed
chin). The bandana is red, the dress dark
calico, the big basket has small red stripes,
the others are straw color.”
Courtesy photo
Pat Stineff holds the basket and photo she so generously donated on her visit to
Siletz on May 19.
identify and make a copy for the family
to have. Some possibilities are Annie
Battise/Gagnier/Logan/Winkler/Orton/
Arden/Collins/Cutlip/Thompson.
Call 800-922-1399 or 541-444-2532
and ask for Peter Hatch or Robert Kentta
in the Cultural Department to exchange
information about the photo.