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Lot 204

A Chumash polychrome bottleneck basket

24 April 2025, 11:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$30,720 inc. premium

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A Chumash polychrome bottleneck basket

A large example, with a short, slightly flaring neck over a wide body worked with stepped diagonal bands issuing upward from a variegated base, losses at rim.
height 12 1/2in, diameter 20 1/2in

Footnotes

Provenance
Jerrold (Jerry) Collings, Sedona, Arizona
Clay P. Bedford, Phoenix, Arizona, acquired from the above circa 1977
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.51, fig.100. "The zigzag elements used in the decoration represent the 'cascade'. The extreme wear on the rim indicates that this piece probably had a lid at one time."

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