Feature Details

Name: The Weavers' Gift

Description: The Weavers' Gifts commemorates and celebrates the indigenous Costanoan-Ohlone Peoples, especially the Tamien Ohlone Indians who inhabited the land along the Guadalupe River where the sculpture is located. The sculpture is composed of four elements:The names of the 54 Ohlone tribal groups who inhabited California into the late eighteenth century, these are inscribed on pre-existing granite seat walls A 4’ high carved-granite basket representing a functional and creative part of the Ohlone culture A 5’ high carved granite mortar, broken to represent broken tradition; and A stone representation of an unfinished coiled basket inlaid into the paving with inscribed text that speaks to the history and future of the Ohlone people.