Maidu Authentic Native American Indian Hand Woven Basket Old Vintage Antique Vtg

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Maidu Authentic Native American Indian Hand Woven Basket Old Vintage Antique Vtg:
$600.00

Maidu Native American Indian Authentic Hand-Woven Basket From Circa, 1900s.
I am selling this Authentic Native American Maidu basket for a close friend of mine. It was owned by his mother for many years, shefinally hadthe basket appraised in 2002 by SAGEBRUSH GALLERY / SYD BOTTOMLEY AMERICAN INDIAN ART in NevadaCity, California.
The basket measures 12\"width X 4 1/4 height. In 2002 it was appraised for insurance purposes and it\'s value was $500.00 at that time.Our research to find similar Maidu baskets has lead us to the Brooklyn Museum where they have on display a(Maidu, Native American,(1864-1932). Coiled Presentation Bowl, late 19th-early 20th century. Sedge root, briar root, willow shoots,height: 8 in. (20.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum,Museum Expedition 1906, Museum Collection Fund, 06.331.8050. (Information from Wikimedia Commons). Upon our search for otherMaidu baskets,the Maidu baskets that we found look to be on display in museums in a glass case.
I have included photos of the hard copy of the appraisal letter and the receipt from 2002, please see photos. If you have any questions, please feelfree to contact me and I will do my best to answer any questions that you might have.
TheMaiduare aNative Americanpeople ofnorthern California. They reside in the centralSierra Nevada, in the drainage area of theFeatherandAmericanRivers. They also reside in Humbug Valley. InMaiduan languages,Maidumeans \"man\".
Baskets and Basketmaking

The Maidu were exemplary basket weavers, weaving highly detailed and useful baskets in sizes ranging from thimble-sized to huge ones ten or more feet in diameter. The stitches on some of these baskets are so fine that you need a magnifying glass to see them. In addition to closely woven, watertight baskets for cooking, they made large storage baskets, bowls, shallow trays, traps, cradles, hats and seed beaters. To make these baskets, they used dozens of different kinds of wild plant stems, barks, roots and leaves. Some of the more common were fern roots, red bark of the redbud, white willow twigs and tule roots, hazel twigs, yucca leaves, brown marsh grass roots and sedge roots. By combining these different kinds of plants, they were able to make geometric designs on their baskets in red, black, white, brown or tan.

Maidu elder Marie Potts explains, \"The coiled and twining systems were both used, and the products were sometimes handsomely decorated according to the inventiveness and skill of the weaver and the materials available, such as feathers of brightly plumaged birds, shells, quills, seeds or beads- almost anything that could be attached.\"

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