A Chumash basket
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A Chumash polychrome basket
The globular basket tightly though unevenly woven, with large outlined diamond forms about the lower shoulder, series of triangles and ticked bands overhead, restoration to rim.
height 7 1/2in, diameter 9in
Sold for US$ 35,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    James Deetz Collection

    Ill:
    Hudson, Travis and Blackburn, Thomas, 1981, p. 407, fig. 190-25, text p. 401; and Dawson, Lawrence and Deetz, James, 1965, unpaginated, plate 12, fig. b: "The intended rim of this basket is indicated by the ticks between the principal band. The extra bands were added in modifying the shape of the basket."

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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