Polychrome Cooking Bowl
Yokuts
- Marked Down $5,000.00
- Gallery Price $9,500.00
- Title
- Polychrome Cooking Bowl
- Artist
- Yokuts
- Medium
- Light background weft material is variegated split sedge root. Dark design weft is redbud and bracken fern root
- Size
- 9 1/4" height X 16 1/2" diameter
- Coil count
- 6 per inch
- Stitch count
- 9 per inch
- Date
- Circa 1910
- Condition
- Excellent to good. Three missing stitches. Very firm basket. Extremely slight bottom wear.
- Design
- Intermittent rim ticking at rim. Diagonal stepped elements in redbud outlined with bracken fern root, descending from ring below rim.
- Provenance
- Collected by a basket collector in Southern California two generations ago DN
- About The Polychrome Cooking Bowl
This basket was acquired by an astute collector in California, who left his collection to his grandchildren.
Marked Down from $7,500 to $5,000
- About Yokuts
- "Between 40 and 60 tribes of Yokuts people were situated in Central California. Geographically they were divided into three groups 1) the Southern Valley Yokuts 2) the Northern Valley Yokuts and 3) the Foothill Yokuts. Their economy was based on fishing, hunting land animals and waterfowl and collecting shellfish, roots, seeds and nuts." Native American Basketry of Central California by Christopher L. Moser.
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