Mary Kawennatakie Adams (January 24, 1917 – May 23, 1999) was an Akwesasronon textile artist and basket maker.

[3] At the age of 6, Adams learned from her mother how to process black ash splints and sweetgrass and weave baskets.

When she was 10 years old, her mother died, and her father left the reserve to seek employment as an iron worker.

[2] Adams' dual cultural influences from being Mohawk and Roman Catholic is, in the words of scholar Olivia Thornburn, "interwoven with her splint ash and sweet grass baskets."

"[5] In 1980, Adams presented Pope John Paul II at the Vatican with a basket specially made to honor the beatification of now Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, a noted 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquian woman.

[2] Adams was included in the 1998 exhibition Crossing the Threshold, focusing on women artists, at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery.

At the time of her death, even with failing eyesight, she was braiding sweet grass for her daughter Trudy, who was also making baskets.