**Originally Listed At $300**

Native American, Southwestern United States, Apache people, 1950s CE. A woven wicker water basket that exhibits a piriform body with a braided finger handle and a flared rim. Water baskets like this example were covered in thick, sticky pitch to seal the innumerable gaps between the woven strands to mitigate and altogether halt any leakage of the liquid contained within. Size: 4" W x 5.875" H (10.2 cm x 14.9 cm)

Please note this item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.

Provenance: private Don Phelps collection, owner Todos Santos Trading Post, Alamo, California, ex-J. Wilson estate, California

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#180263

Minor chipping and desiccation to pitch, with light fraying to some wicker fibers, otherwise intact and excellent. Great preservation to overall form.