Petra Pico
Biography of Petra Pico, a Ventureño Chumash basket weaver. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petra Pico (c. April 29, 1834 – September 7, 1902) was a Chumash basket weaver, elder, and regarded as a figurehead of the Ventureño Chumash Community. She was born at Mission San Buenaventura in 1834 to two Chumash neophytes. Her parents were also born and raised at the Mission and had ties to villages throughout modern-day Ventura County, near Santa Paula and the Santa Monica Mountains.[1]