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Sale 218 Lot 352
TWO SOUTHWESTERN NATIVE AMERICAN COILED BASKETS, ONE WITH BIRD MOTIF Two coiled fiber baskets of oval, boat-like form. The first, possibly Pima or Tohono O'odham, is finely coiled in natural willow with a dark devil's claw rim and a stylized bird or quail figure worked in dark fiber against the natural ground. The second, a plain-weave twined example in undyed natural fiber, shares the same oval boat form and open, airy lattice-like weave without figural decoration, its interior bearing an old inventory tag. Approx. height: 3.5 inches; approx. width: 5.5 inches $200-300
PROVENANCE: Estates of Rosalee Cohen Davison and Richard "Dick" Samuel Davison, Baltimore, MD
PROVENANCE: Estate of Rosalee Cohen Davison and Richard "Dick" Samuel Davison, Baltimore, MD
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