Ingmars Lindbergs
Director
Lot 175
A Yokuts polychrome friendship bottleneck basket
24 April 2025, 11:00 PDT
Los AngelesSold for US$11,520 inc. premium
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A Yokuts polychrome friendship bottleneck basket
Likely the work of Louisa (Lasyeh) Francisco (Mrs. Dick Francisco), (1857-1953), a finely woven example, designed with a partially ticked rim above pairs of diagonal lines on the neck, the body with two rattlesnake bands and three lines of bi-color figures, the base worked with concentric fretwork bands.
height 9in, diameter 13in
height 9in, diameter 13in
Footnotes
With a collection note on the interior inscribed: 54 / Cummings Coll.
Provenance
Per the collector's notes, ex-Collection of Mrs. Elizabeth Cummings, Porterville, CA
Clay P. Bedford, Phoenix, Arizona
A Notable California Collection, acquired from the above circa 1991
Exhibited
The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, "Western North American Indian Baskets from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford," April 16 - October 19, 1980
Illustrated
Bedford, Clay P., Western North American Indian Baskets: from the collection of Clay P. Bedford, 1980, The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, p.38, fig.72.
See Garfinkel, Alan P., editor, California Indian Basketry; Ikons of the Florescence, 2021, Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p.35: "Louisa Francisco is known today as one of the finest and most important weavers in the history of California basketry. She created many of the best bottleneck baskets made by the Yokuts, with coil counts reaching 12 per inch and stitch counts up to 23 per inch..."
