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Navajo Coiled Basket featuring Bats or Butterflies

Sally Black

About The Navajo Coiled Basket featuring Bats or Butterflies

A concentric ring of stepped triangles references the traditional Navajo wedding basket.

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Gallery Price $900.00

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Description

A concentric ring of stepped triangles references the traditional Navajo wedding basket.

About the Artist (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.
Culture American Indian, Navajo, Women Artists
Style Contemporary
Medium Yucca and sumac (dyed and natural)
Size 13 1/3" diameter X 2 1/2" height
Coil count 3 coils per inch
Stitch count 8 per inch
Signed No, but artist's business tag is attached
Date of creation Circa 2006
Condition Mint !
Provenance B Nib
Other Works by Sally Black
Coyote Placing the Stars, Baskets by Sally Black Coiled Polychrome Basket with Turtle Motif, Baskets by Sally Black Navajo Story of Fire Basket, Baskets by Sally Black Navajo Basket Featuring Tulip Designs, Baskets by Sally Black
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