Coiled Polychrome Basket with Turtle Motif

Sally Black

Coiled Polychrome Basket with Turtle Motif, Baskets by Sally Black
  • Navajo basket
Item Purchased
Savvy Price $985.00
Gallery Price $1,350.00
Title
Coiled Polychrome Basket with Turtle Motif
Artist
Sally Black
Medium
Yucca and sumac
Size
14 1/2" diameter X 2 height
Coil count
3 per inch
Stitch count
8 per inch
Signed
tag identifies weaver and year produced
Date of creation
2006
Condition
Mint !
Provenance
B Nib
About The Coiled Polychrome Basket with Turtle Motif
About Sally Black
(Born 1959, Navajo)  Sally Black is a legendary award-winning basketmaker. Often she chooses to incorporate pictorial designs depicting human figures, deer, dogs, eagles, horses and turtles.

Black was taught to fashion baskets by her mother, Mary Holiday Black.  Subsequently Sally Black has shared her techniques with a range of Navajo students.

This artists has been described over the equivalent of an entire page of Gregory Schaaf's publication American Indian Baskets I  1,500 Artist Biographies.  Fourteen of this creator's baskets are illustrated in color in this unique publication.
Other Works By Sally Black:
  • Coyote Placing the Stars, Baskets by Sally Black
  • Navajo Story of Fire Basket, Baskets by Sally Black
  • Navajo Basket Featuring Tulip Designs, Baskets by Sally Black
Cultures

Arizona, Navajo, Women Artists

Medium

Baskets

Subject

Reptiles

Keywords

Sally Black, Navajo basket