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Fine Northern California Vintage Native Basketry

Fine, Early, and Large

Karuk (Karok) - Hupa - Yurok Indian Basket over Bottle

3 3/4\" d x 11.5\" h

c. 1900

One of the larger basket bottles we have seen.

Excellent condition; With very little wear.

The extensive use of red alder dyed fern root material suggest that this is Karuk.

Northwest: This region includes the Coastal ranges and KlamathMountains. From the coast, thenative population inhabited the redwoods and coastal forests, mountains andvalleys and along the rivers including the Eel, Mad, and Klamath rivers. Thetribes of this region that we focus on are the coastal Yurok, the northern Karuk and the Hupa Group peoples primarily of the Hoopa Valley (south of the Karuk), which include the Hupa, Chilula and Whilkut. For the most part, the basketrymotifs are woven using a half-twist overlay technique.

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Item provenance:
From a Seattle private collection assembled in the 1960\'s.
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