Polychrome Partial Gap Stitch Open Bowl
Yokuts
- Marked Down $1,300.00
- Gallery Price $2,800.00
- Title
- Polychrome Partial Gap Stitch Open Bowl
- Artist
- Yokuts
- Medium
- Light background weft material is split sedge root. Dark design weft is redbud and bracken fern root
- Size
- 5 3/4" height X 10" diameter
- Coil count
- 6 per inch
- Stitch count
- 10 per inch
- Date
- Circa 1910
- Condition
- Very good. Two missing stitches on rim. Eight missing stitches on interior. One missing stitch on exterior.
- Design
- Nine redbud diamonds outlined by split sedge root on background of bracken fern root. Self-coiled rim. Diamond pattern represents rattlesnake design. Extremely firm basket.
- Provenance
- Collected by a basket collector in Southern California two generations ago DN
- About The Polychrome Partial Gap Stitch Open Bowl
This basket was acquired by an astute collector in California, who left his collection to his grandchildren.
Marked Down from $1,800 to $1,300
- 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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