| Object ID |
T0484 |
| Object Name |
Basket |
| Description |
Karuk, Yurok, Hupa or Wiyot Basket/Tray;
Medium/Materials: Hazel sticks, willow or spruce root, bear grass, maidenhair fern, woodwardia fern, alder bark dye.;
Technique: Half-twist overlay twining
Marks: Attached to inside of basket, a metal tab: "325"; |
| Dimensions |
H-4 Dia-10 inches |
| Early Date |
1890 |
| Late Date |
1910 |
| Medium |
woodwardia fern/alder bark dye |
| Place of Origin |
Klamath River/Northern California, CA, USA |
| People |
Karuk/Yurok/Hupa/Wiyot/ |
| Provenance |
(1) Jay Leff. Pennsylvania. TK this provenance - see remarks.;
(2) Sotheby's Parke Bernet. New York. October 1979, Sale 4291, lot 280 (illus. incorrectly as lot 281).;
(3) James Economos. Santa Fe, New Mexico.;
(4) Eugene V. Thaw.;
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| History |
Scholarly Attributions:
[1] Colleen Kelley Marks' comments - March 1996 - "Tray (unfinished gambling tray) (Crossed out root in hazel root and wrote sticks, willow or spruce root, crossed out conifer root, and added dyed with alder bark after woodwardia fern. This basket got "out of control" while it was being woven, and so the weaver quit. It is supposed to be more of a tray with curved-up sides. She pulled too tight and it became a bowl with the design on the inside, so she quit! Unfinished gambling tray with "to point" design gambling on it." [2] Letter from Craig Bates - 18 November 1997 - "From what I can see here, it looks as though this basket was never finished. From the image on the catalog sheet, it looks as though it is lacking a row of twining in root at the edge. I think that this was cut down from a somewhat larger, or unfinished, basket." "On baskets T484, T485a,b, T486, T487, T488; all of them could as likely be Karuk, Yurok or Hupa, or, perhaps, even Wiyot. I know of no way to differentiate between the baksets of
these groups, and elderly weavers I spoke with back in the early 1970s told me the same thing." [3] September 1997 - A. H. Whiteford crossed out twine from the materials and added "half-twist overlay twining." |
| Used |
Karuk, Yurok, Hupa or Wiyot |
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