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Degikup Basket
Item#: LK46-5 - SOLD
Includes a strap of glass seed beads attached to the basket.
Completed: August, 1908
SPI: 22
Diameter: 3 1/2in
Height: 2 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Datsolalee
Basket cup or bowl
Item#: LK43-1 - SOLD
described in Amy Cohn's ledger as a "soft day-gee-coop". Includes a string of alternating "bottle glass" green transparent and white glass seed beads attached to the rim as a strap.
Completed: September, 1906
Diameter: 2 3/4in
Height: 2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Datsolalee
Yokuts bottleneck basket by Mrs. Dick Francisco
Item#: 5017-28
Diameter: 9 1/2in
Height: 7in
Category: Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A very large Washoe degikup basket
Item#: 8117
Circa.1920
Diameter: 17in
Height: 9 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Washoe
A Paiute beaded basket
Item#: 9433
(side and bottom shown)
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 4 1/2in
Height: 2 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
A large Makah basket
Item#: 35179
Illustrated with eagles, whales, butterflies, boats and birds.
Circa: 1925
Length: 12in
Width: 8in
Height: 8in
Category: Indian Baskets - Makah
A Maidu basket decorated with butterflies
Item#: 5016-91
Circa: 1910
Diameter: 7in
Height: 4 1/4in
Category: Indian Baskets - Maidu
Degikup Basket
Item#: LK56-1 - SOLD
Completed: November, 1914
SPI: 15
Diameter: 5in
Height: 3 5/8in
Category: Indian Baskets - Datsolalee
A Rare Chumash polychrome olla gift basket
Item#: 2036 -SOLD
This rare Chumash polychrome olla gift basket has a rounded shoulder and is woven with a gold juncus background covered with a net design. The rim has six woven accent decorations.
Circa 1875
Diameter: 7in
Height:6in
Category: Indian Baskets - Chumash
A Large and Early Pomo Gift Basket
Item#: 1135N
This large, early and very fine Pomo gift basket decorated with a row of clam-shell discs going around the rim. The outside has thirty Abalone shell dangles attached to the clam-shell discs with a clam-shell handle. The basket was once adorned with quail top knots on the rim and the body with red woodpecker feathers, with only remnants remaining, as the photos show.
Circa: 1895
Diameter: 10in
Height: 3in
Category: Indian Baskets - Pomo
Very Rare Flower Holder basket by Datso La Lee

Item#: LK82/1 - SOLD
This very rare flower holder basket is woven by the famous weaver Datso La Lee (Louisa Keyser). The cylindrical basket is woven with three design bands of arrow feathers, around a glass jar to hold water for flowers.
Accompanying the flower holder is the original certificate from the Emporium Company of Carson City, NV, registering the Flower Holder as LK82/1, dated June 1922. Additionally, the collection includes the hand print of Datso La Lee herself, with the matching 82/1 number marking. Abe Cohn's business card and a note card from the 1919 Exposition where Datso La Lee demonstrated her weaving.
Added as well is a silver medallion, commemorating Datso La Lee, Queen of the Basket makers - the second of the Women of Nevada series by the Nevada State Museum.
Circa: 1922
Height: 6 1/2in
Diameter: 3 1/4in
Category: Indian Baskets - Washoe
A large Apache olla basket

Item#: 9018
Decorated with geometric designs, plus over fifty figures of people and animals.
Circa: 1900
Height: 20in
Diameter: 19in
Category: Indian Baskets - Apache
Yokuts figured basket by Mrs. Britches
Item#: 5017-39
Ref. Photos by Leo Brown, Reedley, CA
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 10in
Height: 5in
Category: Indian Baskets - Yokuts
Paiute beaded basket
Item#: 9413
(side and bottom shown)
Circa: 1925
Diameter: 6in
Height:3 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Pomo oval basket
Item#: 9420
Circa: 1915
SPI 28
Length: 10in
Width: 8 1/2in
Height: 3 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Pomo
Book: Tradition and Innovation
A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite Mono Lake Area
Signed by
Craig D Bates, Curator
Martha J. Lee, Assistant Curator
of the National Parks Service in Yosemite National Park, CA 1990
LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE
Category: Other Collectables - Collectables
A Remarkable Chumash Polychrome Fancy Basket
Item#: SOLD - 3036
Decorated with a design of twenty-four rows of vertical diamond designs in gold and black. A clog design going around the base and the upper sides of the basket has two beautiful horizontal designs.
Circa: 1820
Diameter 15in
Height: 8in
Category: Indian Baskets - Chumash
Degikup Basket
Item#: LK48-6 - SOLD
Completed: March, 1909
Diameter: 3 1/2in
Height: 2 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Datsolalee
A Degikup Basket
Item#: LK59-4 - SOLD
Completed: June, 1916
SPI: 20
Diameter: 4 1/4in
Height: 3in
Category: Indian Baskets - Datsolalee
A Very Rare and Fine Yokuts Historical basket
Item#: SOLD - 4098
This Native American historic basket is decorated with tule lodge houses and figures. The shape of the basket is in the form of a tule lodge house. The houses were on the Upper Tule River and more nearly approached the shape of the great Indian tepees.
Circa: 1888
Diameter: 8in
Height: 6 1/2 in
The basket was purchased from Otis Tufton Mason in 1904
Category: Indian Baskets - Yokuts
A Panamint basket bowl
Item#: 7024
Decorated with two bands of a negative diamond design, and rim ticking.
Circa: 1910
Diameter: 10in
Height: 5in
Category: Indian Baskets - Panamint
A fine Kawaiisu basket

Item#: 9017
Decorated in variations of zigzag motifs, which are employed throughout the basket, as well as solid horizontal bands of yucca around the center.
Circa: 1905
Diameter: 9in
Height: 6in
Category: Indian Baskets - Kawaiisu
A very tightly woven Mono Lake/Yosemite Paiute degikup basket

Item#: 17
Decorated with eagles and deometric designs.
Stitches per inch: 25
Circa: 1910
Diameter: 6 1/2in
Height: 3 1/2in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
Mono Lake Paiute butterfly and eagle basket
Item#: 5016-20
by Daisy Charlie
Circa: 1912
Diameter: 6 1/8in
Height: 4in
Category: Indian Baskets - Mono-Miwok-Paiute
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