Luiseno Mission Coiled Basket

Mission

Luiseno Mission Coiled Basket, Baskets by Mission
  • Luiseno Mission basket
  • coiled Mission basket
Savvy Price $1,200.00
Gallery Price $1,800.00
Title
Luiseno Mission Coiled Basket
Artist
Mission
Medium
Bundle foundation deer grass, weft is sumac field, pattern black juncus
Size
5 1/2" height X 14" maximum diameter
Coil count
8 per inch
Stitch count
10 per inch
Date of creation
Early 1900's
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
RJ
About The Luiseno Mission Coiled Basket

Ten (10) checkerboard diamonds are in stark contrast to a relatively pale sumac background. This bowl is entirely generous in its scale.  

About Mission
"Their numbers diminished over the years as the non-indigenous people came west, bringing their life threatening diseases with them. Some of the Native American survivors became incorporated into the Mexican minority population. Very few of the surviving Mission people such as the Agua Caliente at Palm Springs, the Cahuilla and the Luiseno have managed to retain aspects of their original languages, kinship systems, and religions. Basket making was a highly developed skill for these different Mission tribes residing in Southern California. Coiled basketry prevails in Southern California. Bundle coiled foundations consists of grasses or rush stems. All decorated baskets from this region exhibit comparatively simple design motifs that are geometric or stylized in form and are executed in red, in black or in the mottled yellowish brown juncus rush on a natural colored field. Rims are finished with an overcast, coiled whipstitch that creates a self rim." Excerpted from Indian Baskets by Sarah and William Turnbaugh
Cultures

American Indian, Women Artists

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Keywords

Mission basket, Luiseno Mission basket, coiled Mission basket