Weaver Janice Williams

Janice Williams - A Talented Weaver Returns to the Festival

Janice Williams is local Kawaiisu Indian tribal member who returns to the festival to demonstrate basket weaving using locally harvested plants. Janice is the great-granddaughter of noted basketmaker Emma Williams, who is pictured on the Nuwa Indian mural on the side of Hitching Post Theater. Janice's brother Harold, a co-author of the recently published "Handbook of the Kawaiisu," is also pictured on the mural. Janice works with willow, deergrass and other native materials as she practices this ancient craft of the Tehachapi Mountains.