LOLA THOMAS
Tohono O'odham

  Lola is Tohono O'odham from the White Horse Pass community. Her daughter is a fifth generation weaver and she is teaching her daughter as much as she can. She starts young children on horsehair weaving. Lola herself weaves with willow, yucca and horsehair. She likes to do mostly miniatures and she is also very good at doing repairs of baskets. Lola learned to weave from her grandmother at the age of 13. She doesn't specialize because she likes to try everything. She has won awards for her weaving.

     Lola enjoys the willow as art and since there are just a few willow weavers left she would like to continue it and pass it on. Weaving brings back her culture inside herself. Growing up in city schools and boarding school she feels she wasn't connected to her culture. Weaving connects her to her culture. She would like people to know that weaving willow is a lot of hard work.

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