Pomo gift basket
-sedge and dyed bracken fern, quail plume feathers
-4 3/4" diameter x 1 3/4" high
-very finely woven: 28-32 stitches per inch and 9 coils per inch
-ex: descended in PA family
-circa 1900-1920s
excellent condition
$2800. (*REDUCED PRICE)
(MC1218)
The Pomo Indians of North Central California are widely recognized as having been among the best of all bastry weavers in the world. They lived from the Pacific Ocean to Clear Lake in California and had abundant resources which provided ready food, shelter, and materials with which to weave.
They were versatile weavers, excelling in twining as well as coiling, including the abiliy to weave variatioons of both. they coiled using both single rod and 3-rod foundations, the latter being more difficult and time consuming.
This basket is woven out of sedge and dyed bracken fern using a 3-rod foundation. The negative design and the extremely even stitching and coiling make this basket a wonderful addition to any collection.
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts LLC
520 East 72nd Street, Suite 2C
New York, New York 10021
(by appointment only)
