Antique Cherokee Indian Market Basket

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1900: item #798924

Pre-1900 era rivercane basket, Cherokee Indian, North Carolina. A hickory rim and handle add form to the round to square plaited basket.

Rivercane is natural and dyed with bloodroot and walnut. Great patina! Also a little dusty. Better to leave it than to snag it while cleaning.

Dimensions are 7" deep by 9" across the bottom and 8" across t... Click for details

Antique Apache Indian Burden Basket

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1900: item #783853

Material culture Indian burden basket was woven for native use by the Apache Indians around 1900.

Finely woven with mulberry rods and wefts, with design of devils claw and aniline dyed red mulberry. The rim is wrapped with two coils of willow and devils claw. What is really interesting is the rim coil: eight gauge steel wire, the type used in telegraph lines, is side by side with two willow rods. This made it extremel... Click for details

Salish Tray w/Handles Handwoven Indian Basket 1930s

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #781792

Circa 1930s, a bundled coil Salish tray of cedar root with open handles, intricate rim and vegetable dyed imbricated overlay in red, black and tan. The design is a lobed flower also known as star form. Crosses are woven at the 5 interior points. Fine quality work and very good overall condition with minimal loss mainly on crosses. The Coast Salish and interior Salish clans are well known for their skill in weaving, the concentric design seen here is beautiful and the basket is clean for its age b... Click for details

Large Passamaquoddy Guide's Basket Maine Early 1900s

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1910: item #774410

Very large Maine guide's basket made by the Passamaquoddy Indians of Northern Maine somewhere in the early 1900s. This was used to carry lunch for sportsmen and hunters and carried by the Indian guide. It is in very good condition and measures 12" x 19-1/2" wide and approx 9" deep, excluding the unusual handle. Loops along the side accommodated a cover to protect the contents of the basket, which appears to be made from split ash. Very good condition for it's age.

American Indian birch bark woven basket

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #769168
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Antique American Indian birch bark basket. Very sturdy and well woven. Shows some wear and age discoloration (darkening of bark). Size: 15 1/2" x 13" 5" deep.

Native American Basket 19 century

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1837 VR: item #766684
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Beautiful Native AMerican basket early 19 century in good condition according to the age Size: 4" H X 10" W

Antique Pomo Indian Gift Basket

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #760305

Fine handwoven baskets were made as gifts and paybacks for ceremonies and events among the Pomo Indian people of Northern California. Very fine work adorned with shells, these baskets were treasured as fine art. Woven of sedge and bulrush, this pretty basketry bowl measures 5 1/2" diameter by 2 1/2" deep, an unbelievable stitch count of 26 per inch on a three rod foundation. Mint condition, except it has been oiled at some time in its life. Buyer pays $15.00 for shipping and insurance. ... Click for details

Antique Yokuts Indian Basket

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #757637

Neat little food bowl, Yokuts Indian basket. This oval basketry bowl fits nicely in hand, 4 1/2" by 3 1/2" by 2 1/2" deep.

Hand woven with sedge and red bud over a bundle foundation with an open stitch. Very nice original condition. YOu can see where it was held and also the spoon wear on the inside. A couple of stitches of native repair. This was someone's long term, well loved, food bowl!... Click for details

Beaded Willow Basket Miniature Pima Indian

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #752869

Rare and wonderful Pima Indian basket has a tiny glass bead woven in each stitch. Over 1000 glass beads on this small cup, measuring 3" diameter by 1 7/8" deep. Seven coils and twenty-two stitches per inch.

The glass beads are white, turquoise, dark blue and one green one! Lovely pattern is created with the beads, no devils claw pattern to the basket except for the rim.... Click for details

Havasupai Indian Basket Water Jar

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1920: item #752799

A graceful shape and fabulous condition set this Havasupai Indian tus apart! The distinctive pointed bottom identifies this water jar as being from the tribe that lives at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, at Havasupai Falls.

Woven of willow, cottonwood or acacia and finished with a devils claw rim, the closed twined construction is very sturdy and quite beautiful! Many of this type of basket was coated with pinon pitch... Click for details