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