A Yokuts Polychrome Coiled Basket ...

Description

A Yokuts Polychrome Coiled Basket
Mrs. Dick Francisco
c. 1905

sedge, bracken fern root, redbud

Provenance:
A Private Collection, New York, NY, acquired in 2011
Wayne Thompson, Phoenix, AZ
Bob Adams, Tucson, AZ
Helen Harvey, Porterville, CA, c. 1920

"Louisa Francisco (Mrs. Dick 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 ... She wove on grass-bundle foundations, using traditional Yokuts design elements such as water-skaters, flies, quail plumes, rattlesnake bands and most notably humans, and even butterflies," Garfinkel, Alan P., ed., California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence, 2021, Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 35.

Diameter: 9 ½ inches

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