Mono bottleneck basket
7 1/2' diameter x 3 1/2" high
20 stitches per inch; 10 coils per inch
sedge and dyed bracken fern
circa 1900-1920
Please contact us for price.
(California)
This is a particularly fine example of a Mono bottleneck basket. It is very evenly coiled and has crosses flanked by bounding lines on the rim. in fact, this is one of the finest Mono baskets we have seen.
The Mono Indians (Monache) lived in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Their basketry designs resemble those of the nearby Yokuts indians but the baskets are traditionally woven in a different direction. Moreover, their bottleneck baskets tend to be of a more "flattened" form than the those of the Y
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts LLC
520 East 72nd Street, Suite 2C
New York, New York 10021
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