Baskets
Property from the Cain Family Collection
Two Paiute baskets
Each of compressed globular form, the smallest finely woven with concentric diamond and winged devices; the second showing framed concentric diamond lozenges and solid color sawtooth diamond forms.
diameter 4 1/2 and 4in
See illustration
diameter 4 1/2 and 4in
See illustration
Sold for
US$ 3,818
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Regarding the first basket Craig Bates wrote "Very finely stitched, especially for a basket made of willow, with 11 coils and 19-20 stitches per inch." On the second he remarked "This basket appears to have been made by the same weaver as Cain Collection 10A." #10A is auction number 1100.
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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