Stunning Yokuts polychrome Oblong Friendship Basket - SOLD

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Circa 1900

Height 8" Width 15 1/2"

Provenance: Clay P. Bedford, Phoenix, Arizona

A Notable California Collection, acquired from the above circa 1991

A deep oblong basket with partially ticked rim above a wide rattlesnake band, with two rows of male and female figures clasping hands near the base.

Exhibited: The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, "Western North American Indian Baskets from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford," April 16 - October 19, 1980

Illustrated: Bedford, Clay P., Western North American Indian Baskets: from the collection of Clay P. Bedford, 1980, The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, p.41, fig.79. "(A) storage or general utility basket... The decoration consists of a band of the 'diamondback rattlesnake' design and two bands of 'friendship figures'."

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Circa 1900

Height 8" Width 15 1/2"

Provenance: Clay P. Bedford, Phoenix, Arizona

A Notable California Collection, acquired from the above circa 1991

A deep oblong basket with partially ticked rim above a wide rattlesnake band, with two rows of male and female figures clasping hands near the base.

Exhibited: The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, "Western North American Indian Baskets from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford," April 16 - October 19, 1980

Illustrated: Bedford, Clay P., Western North American Indian Baskets: from the collection of Clay P. Bedford, 1980, The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, p.41, fig.79. "(A) storage or general utility basket... The decoration consists of a band of the 'diamondback rattlesnake' design and two bands of 'friendship figures'."

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