Show I IReno Indian Artist Dead Reno Nevada Lee So Lee So one of the few fow artists of her vanishing race whose task of weaving the legendary legendary le le- history of the Washoe Indian tribe Into basketry gained her national nation nation- al fame tame was buried in the little Indian Indian In In- dian cemetery near the Carson Indian school at Stewart Dat Lee So Lee So-La-Lee whose death came carne after aCter medicine men and white doctors had been unable unable unable un un- able to give her relief was said to bethe bethe be bo bothe the finest basket weaver of her race Specimens of her work are on display at the Smithsonian Institute the Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Car Car- negie Institute and other museums throughout tho the countr country Some of her work is valued at and during her life of more than ninety years sho she completed only fifty baskets Buried with her is an unfinished basket sai saito said to be the finest she had ever started It was placed In the grave graye at her re reo quest I |