Food or Serving Bowl (Presentation Bowl), 1880–90. Great Basin, Timbisha Shoshone (Panamint). Sumac, devil's claw, yucca root, with orange shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and a bundle of deer grass or basket grass); diameter: x 48 cm (8 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.). This basket was likely made for the commercial market, and is modeled on native food service bowls. When used indigenously, the main view would have been of the interiors, which in two cases are patterned with bold, well-executed geometric designs. The two small, pink crosses on this example—both executed with flicke
Food or Serving Bowl (Presentation Bowl), 1880–90. Great Basin, Timbisha Shoshone (Panamint). Sumac, devil's claw, yucca root, with orange shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and a bundle of deer grass or basket grass); diameter: x 48 cm (8 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.). This basket was likely made for the commercial market, and is modeled on native food service bowls. When used indigenously, the main view would have been of the interiors, which in two cases are patterned with bold, well-executed geometric designs. The two small, pink crosses on this example—both executed with flicker (woodpecker) quills—may be a maker’s mark.
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