The Pomo people are indigenous to California and lived along the northern coast of California, their territory stretching inland toward Clear Lake.

Pomo basketry is often admired for the great craftsmanship. The most prominent styles are plaiting, coiling and twining and they often used materials like willow shoots, sedge roots, swamp canes, saguaro cactuses, rye grass, the bark of redbud and more. In the Pomo tribes both males and females are basket makers, although the styles and uses are slightly different. In general, the baskets made by the women are coiled, twined or feathered, and used for cooking, storing food, and religious ceremonies. The men make baskets for fishing weirs, bird traps and baby baskets.