Polychrome Gap Stitch Cooking Basket with Underworld Pattern
Yokuts
- Savvy Price $1,800.00
- Gallery Price $2,400.00
- Title
- Polychrome Gap Stitch Cooking Basket with Underworld Pattern
- Artist
- Yokuts
- Medium
- Weft material (light inn color) is split sedge root. Dark design weft is redbud and bracken fern root.
- Size
- 6 3/4" height X 13" maximum diameter
- Coil count
- 7 per inch
- Stitch count
- 8 per inch
- Date of creation
- Circa 1910
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- K Nel
- About The Polychrome Gap Stitch Cooking Basket with Underworld Pattern
Gap stitch references space in between weft fibers allowing visibility of the bundled natural fibers serving as the basket's foundation.
- 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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