Early Northern Paiute Basketry Bowl

  

Antique American Indian Art, llc. Early Northern Paiute Basketry Bowl.

With rim stitch loss as pictured. A winnowing and parching basket shows the kind of wear typical of a native used basket in processing seed.

A well woven basket with black devils claw start. Has a very faded aniline dyed willow motif near the center which is almost gone. There was a late 19th century use of soaking colored tissue paper in water with willow to transfer color to the willow which was used by the Paiute, Havasupai and Chemehuevi. Most of these baskets show a very faint motif as the dye transfer was very light and did not hold well. We are confident that you will be pleased with the value, service and peace-of-mind that our gallery can offer you. We will be adding lots of quality Antique American Indian Art over the next few months.