UNIDENTIFIED TLINGIT ARTIST, Basket, c. 1900
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UNIDENTIFIED TLINGIT ARTIST
Basket, c. 1900
spruce root, natural and dyed bear grass, 11 x 11.5 x 10 in (27.9 x 29.2 x 25.4 cm)
ESTIMATE: $2,500 — $3,500
Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
Spruce root is an amazing material, capable of being hand-split down to a very small, consistent size. The resource proved able to create hundreds of finely woven, beautifully designed baskets in the hands of dozens of traditional basket weavers among the Tlingit. This example comes from the top few percent of historically anonymous weavers and has been excellently preserved. The primary designs woven in dyed grass on a darkened ground are the large rectangular ‘raven’s tail’ design, and a much smaller variant of the ‘rainbow’ or ‘arrow’ pattern.
Steven C. Brown
Basket, c. 1900
spruce root, natural and dyed bear grass, 11 x 11.5 x 10 in (27.9 x 29.2 x 25.4 cm)
ESTIMATE: $2,500 — $3,500
Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
Spruce root is an amazing material, capable of being hand-split down to a very small, consistent size. The resource proved able to create hundreds of finely woven, beautifully designed baskets in the hands of dozens of traditional basket weavers among the Tlingit. This example comes from the top few percent of historically anonymous weavers and has been excellently preserved. The primary designs woven in dyed grass on a darkened ground are the large rectangular ‘raven’s tail’ design, and a much smaller variant of the ‘rainbow’ or ‘arrow’ pattern.
Steven C. Brown
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NOTE
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UNIDENTIFIED TLINGIT ARTIST, Basket, c. 1900
Estimate CA$2,500 - CA$3,500
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