About: Ada Thomas

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Ada Thomas (July 31, 1924 – September 6, 1992) was a Chitimachan basket weaver who excelled in double-weave, split rivercane basketry. She was honored as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983. Examples of her weaving are housed in the permanent collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of International Folk Art, among others.

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