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Intermittently feathered three-rod coiled boat basket

Pomo (Northern 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.

Intermittently feathered three-rod coiled boat basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root weft, dyed bulrush root weft, feathers (acorn woodpecker, California valley and mountain quail topknots), clamshell disk beads, and dogbane string, Pomo (Northern California)

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