Hupa Large Twined Basket
Hupa
- Marked Down $750.00
- Gallery Price $1,200.00
- Title
- Hupa Large Twined Basket
- Artist
- Hupa
- Medium
- Light background weft material is beargrass. Red design weft is conifer root. Hazel shoot is the warp.
- Size
- 6" height X 9 1/4" diameter
- Stitch count
- 14 per inch
- Warp count
- 10 per inch
- Date
- Circa 1910
- Condition
- Good. Overcast rim treatment is missing equivalent to 3 3/4 in total.
- Design
- Connected inverted triangles in four clusters. Three diagonal lines in conifer root enhance area just below the rim.
- About The Hupa Large Twined Basket
Provenance: This basket was acquired by an astute collector in California, who left his collection to his grandchildren.
Marked Down from $900 to $750
- About Hupa
- "In Northwestern California were found the Hupa. Chilula and the Whilkut people. The Hupa numbered approximately 1000 at contact in 1850 and were located along the lower part of the Trinity River before it joined the Klamath River. . . Salmon and acorns represented the core of their diet in precontact times." Native American Basketry of Northern California by Christopher L. Moser.
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