Basket Item Number: 91.95.25 from the Portland Art Museum
Description
The Yokuts are some forty to sixty linguistically related tribal groups that historically lived in the San Joaquin valley and adjacent Sierra Nevada foothills of California. They made a variety of coiled basketry forms, including jars with distinct flat shoulders and short, vertical necks. Figurative and representational motifs woven in red and black were common, as were the quail topknots that adorned many Yokuts baskets. The interlocking diamond pattern on the shoulder of this basket is meant to represent a rattlesnake.
Collection History Provenance
The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.
Item History
- Made by Yokuts artist during 1895
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- 91.95.25
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- sedge grass, redbud, brackenfern root, grass and quail feather
- Overall
- height 9.0 in, width 14.5 in
Who
- Culture
- Yokuts
- Creator
- Yokuts artist
Where
- Holding Institution
- Portland Art Museum
- Made in
- “Central California” ?
When
- Creation Date
- during 1895
Other
- Categories
- California; Baskets