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Fully feathered three-rod coiled basket
Ethel Jamison Bogus Elem Pomo (Lake County, California)
Not on view
This piece is characteristic of made-for-sale baskets, whose primary purpose was to be visually attractive to non-Native buyers. These "art baskets" are an adaptation of earlier coiled and ornamented baskets that were given as gifts, but art baskets are generally smaller in size, finer in weave, and more elaborately decorated. This oval "boat" shape, a form particularly associated with Pomo basketry, was popular among basket collectors.
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