Mary Black, Navajo - Tall Basket with Figural and Many Goats Clan design (RD9)
Fabulous, highly collectible woven basket by preeminent Navajo basket artist Mary Holiday Black (1934-2022). Tall, tightly woven water jug-style basket with tree, deer and human figures. The bottom of this basket shows a circle of 12 goats, symbolizing the Many Goats Clan.
During the first half of the 20th century, fewer Navajos wove baskets. Rug weaving had become a better source of income for women than basket weaving, and only a handful of Navajo basket makers were left by the 1960s. During the 1970s, in response to this long-term decline in Navajo basketry, Mary Holiday Black played a key role in the revival of Navajo basket weaving. Her innovations included expanding the size of ceremonial baskets, using vegetable dyes to create more subtle colors, incorporating motifs from ancient Southwestern Indigenous pottery and rock art, and using Navajo religious imagery to weave visual narratives into her baskets. Black became known as a pioneer of Navajo "story baskets." Black passed on her weaving skills to nine of her 11 children, and several of her children have gone on to become respected basket makers, including Jamison Black and Sally Black.
Purchased by the collectors from Blue Mountain Trading Post, Blanding, Utah in 1984.
DETAILS:
Artist: Mary Holiday Black, Navajo
Size: 16 1/2" high x 14" diameter at widest (6 1/4" at opening)
Materials: sumac, willow
Condition: from a private collection, basket is in excellent condition, although the pattern on the outside is faded - please see photos
RD9
Fabulous, highly collectible woven basket by preeminent Navajo basket artist Mary Holiday Black (1934-2022). Tall, tightly woven water jug-style basket with tree, deer and human figures. The bottom of this basket shows a circle of 12 goats, symbolizing the Many Goats Clan.
During the first half of the 20th century, fewer Navajos wove baskets. Rug weaving had become a better source of income for women than basket weaving, and only a handful of Navajo basket makers were left by the 1960s. During the 1970s, in response to this long-term decline in Navajo basketry, Mary Holiday Black played a key role in the revival of Navajo basket weaving. Her innovations included expanding the size of ceremonial baskets, using vegetable dyes to create more subtle colors, incorporating motifs from ancient Southwestern Indigenous pottery and rock art, and using Navajo religious imagery to weave visual narratives into her baskets. Black became known as a pioneer of Navajo "story baskets." Black passed on her weaving skills to nine of her 11 children, and several of her children have gone on to become respected basket makers, including Jamison Black and Sally Black.
Purchased by the collectors from Blue Mountain Trading Post, Blanding, Utah in 1984.
DETAILS:
Artist: Mary Holiday Black, Navajo
Size: 16 1/2" high x 14" diameter at widest (6 1/4" at opening)
Materials: sumac, willow
Condition: from a private collection, basket is in excellent condition, although the pattern on the outside is faded - please see photos
RD9
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