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Winnowing Tray (left) Completed: January, 1919 Diameter: 4 1/8in Length: 4 1/4in Burden Basket (right) Completed: January, 1919 Diameter: 4in Length: 4 7/8in

Decorated with twenty-five dogs and a geometric polychrome design. Circa: 1910 Diameter: 12in Height: 8in

Decorating the shoulder of the basket are men and women friendship figures, holding hands and dancing the friendship dance. The sides are decorated with a polychrome design. The basket has been on display at the Rancho Los Alamites History Museum in Long Beach, California. Circa: 2011 Height: 22in. Diameter: 21in.

Finely woven early basket. Circa: 1840 Diameter 11in Height: 3 1/2in

Decorated with four bands of the butterfly design with inch lines on the rim. Stitch count: 30per inch Circa: 1900 Diameter: 6 1/4in Height: 4 1/2in

Beautifully woven with willow, sedge, brackenfern, and redbud. Circa:1930 Diameter: 16 1/2in Height: 8in Tina Charlie was a regular competitor in the Yosemite Field Days basket competition and others around California. One of the foremost Mono Lake Paiute weavers, Tina Charlie (1869?1962) is known for weaving large and fancy baskets as well as producing excellent traditional and utilitarian baskets. The beautiful basket featured here is displayed in front of Tina in the photo shown.

(side and bottom shown) Circa: 1925 Diameter: 5in Height: 3 1/4in

This Panamint polychrome basket is woven with designs of birds, men, arrowheads and trees. Pink quill dot the eyes of some birds. The weaver is Mary Wrinkle. Circa: 1920 Diameter: 8in. Height: 4in.

This magnificent and rare Karok treasure basket by weaver Elizabeth Hickox is finely woven and is decorated with black geometric designs in maidenhair fern with yellow quill, dyed yellow with lichen, going around the outside. It has a matching knobbed cover. It is in perfect condition. Elizabeth Hickox (1874-1947) baskets stand out from among all other California Native baskets for their extreme delicacy as well as technical and aesthetic refinement. "Lizzie" was known as a virtuoso among her basket weaving peers and her works were marketed early on by premier merchants of Native American art and collected by both museums and well-to-do collectors. She developed a remarkably distinctive style of lidded baskets. This basket is a fine example of her exceptional work. Elizabeth Hickox baskets were marketed by the premier merchant for baskets, Grace Nicholson. Elizabeth's weaving may represent some of the finest twining ever done. Nicholson ledger number for the basket is attached to the bottom of the basket (#6752). Circa: 1915 Diameter: 7 1/2" Height: 6 1/2"

Circa: 1900 Diameter: 8in Height: 4in From the Phoebe Hearst - John Muir Collection

Completed: December, 1911 Diameter: 5 1/4in Height: 3 3/4in Length: 10 1/8in

Vile (Left) Vile of split willow shoots and bracken fern root. Micro Basket (Center) Height: 0.2cm Diameter: 0.3cm Micro Basket (right) Height: 0.1cm Diameter: 0.15cm

Decorated with a fretwork meander going around the basket with strands of triple lobed cherries. The weaver is Minnie Hancock Circa 1920 Diameter: 7in Height: 3 1/8in California Indian Basketry Ikons of the Florescence, page 162-163

Decorated with 35 figures, holding hands, going around the basket in two rows. Additionally, the basket is decorated with two rows of rattlesnake designs. Circa: 1920 Diameter: 10 1/2in Height: 5 1/2in

Woven with twelve vertical designs going around the sides, ending in white bird quill. Circa: 1905 Diameter: 7 1/2in Height: 5 1/2in

Decorated with two bands of rattlesnake designs, and water skaters going around the shoulder, with inch worms over the rim. Circa: 1890 Diameter: 8in. Height: 6in.

From the Cain Collection Circa: 1925 Diameter: 10 1/2in Height: 6in

(side and bottom shown) Circa: 1925 Diameter: 5 1/2in Height: 3 1/4in

Circa: 1910 Length: 10in Diameter: 6 1/2in Height: 3 3/4in

decorated with the poker card symbols of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds along with a butterfly, lizard and scorpion with four geometric designs. Circa: 1910 Diameter: 17 1/2in Height: 7 1/2in

Completed: May, 1912 SPI: 22 Diameter: 2 1/2in Length: 2 3/4in

Decorated on the sides and cover with geometric designs. Circa: 1910 Diameter: 6 1/2in Height: 7 1/2in

This wonderful negative basket with beautiful designs also has a decoration on the bottom. Circa: 1905 Diameter: 9 1/4in Height: 5 1/4in

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