This basket represents the coil technique for the American southwest region around the areas of Arizona and New Mexico. This is a USED basket, offered here on the Clearance Collection as example of a southwest coil basket with Navajo inspired techniques and symbology. It was purchased several generations ago, after the ethnological period and into the antique/vintage era. To the best of our knowledge here, this would be considered a Dine'/Navajo variant, with symbology based in this cultural heritage. The closest type would be called a "wedding basket" with symbology of a center section with longest point opening towards the end of the coil. In the first picture, this is shown as the ochre colored longest point, towards the spot of left thumb in hand as the end of the coil strand. This is most often recorded as the center respresenting the people coming out of the earth, and a way or direction out, with the mid sections representing sunlight and nourishment, and outer step pyramid shapes as clouds and rain. The basket is in good solid shape, with two very small fiber frays, that are shown in center of final two pictures. The basket measures 12 and a half inches across, and 2 inches deep. The top open part of the basket has lightened due to sun exposure over the years, and the bottom has more fresh colors, as seen in pictures above.
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$75.00 Regular Price
$52.50Sale Price
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