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Matilda Thomas was the mother of Sto:lo Elder Elizabeth Herrling. Matilda was a basket weaver who used the butterfly or the star on her work. Her granddaughter Margaret Jimmie and great granddaughter Frieda George are both weavers and former members of the Salish Weavers Guild. Frieda is also a basket maker like her grandmother and great grandmother. This family was featured in the Museum of Anthropology exhibit, Satet te siwes: Continuing Traditions, on coiled cedar root basketry.