Baskets

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...

Wonderful antique Apache olla coil basket from a private collection.  This antique treasure has an open diamond pattern with negative lightning design bands.  It is constructed from a foundation of willow rods.  The weaving is of willow and black devil's...

This gorgeous, oversized coiled Navajo basket is woven from sumac in a colorful butterfly pattern.  Made by well-known Navajo basket artist Agnes Gray (aunt of Sally Black).  Ca. early 1990s. ARTIST: Agnes GrayTRIBAL AFFILIATION: NavajoSIZE: 22" diameter + 3 1/2"...

This fantastic piece of Hat Creek (Atsugewi) basketry dates from the 1890s-1910s. The twined basket is woven over a torpedo-shaped bottle and has an attached lid. Made of bear grass, black maidenhair fern and alder wood.  The pattern shows four...

Fabulous perfectly woven basket by noted artist, Peggy Rock Black.  Peggy was born into a family of weavers and then married into the Black family, who are famous weavers as well.  This basket showcases a Many Goats Clan design  ...

Fabulous perfectly woven basket by noted artist, Peggy Rock Black.  Peggy was born into a family of weavers and then married into the Black family, who are famous weavers as well.  This basket showcases a turtle in the middle surrounded...

This vintage Pima coiled basket is a beautiful, radiating fret design. Extremely well woven. Pima baskets are typically sewn with willow (light color) and devil's claw (black) over a base of split cattail reeds. DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: PimaSize: 14 3/4"...

This vintage Pima coiled basket is a beautiful, radiating fret design.  Pima baskets are typically sewn with willow (light color) and devil's claw (black) over a base of split cattail reeds. DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: PimaSize: 12 1/2" diameter x 3"...

Fabulous hand-woven Makah trinket basket showcasing the whirling log design.  This basket's characteristics, date it 1890s.   In the 1860s, the Makah people at Neah Bay developed a cottage industry producing trinket baskets. Through the 1930s, they wove thousands of small...

This antique Hopi coiled plaque basket is beautifully crafted with a black and yellow dyed Crow Mother design.  Bundle galleta grass foundation with yucca splints, ca. 1928s  DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: HopiSize: 13 1/2" diameter x 3/4" deepMaterials: bundle galleta grass...

This vintage Pima coiled basket has a tall, flared shape with a geometric design.  Pima baskets are typically sewn with willow (light color) and devil's claw (black) over a base of split cattail reeds. DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: PimaSize: 8 1/4"...

Fannie King (Diné, b. 1946) creates beautiful baskets and learned her craft from her mother's family.  She prides herself on creating the very best baskets possible.  This blossom design basket is in perfect condition. DETAILS:Artist: Fannie King (Dine, b. 1946)Condition:...

Canadian Northwest Territories heart shaped birchbark basket with spruce root and quill design, leather strap hinge and closure, artist signed Marie Kotchea,   Gorgeous Native American basket. Size: 9 1/2" x 8 1/4" x 4" high   Excellent condition

Beautifully woven large Apache burden basket. Hanging strap, fringe and bottom of the basket are leather. Fringes are tipped with hand-rolled tin cones. Apache burden baskets are made from available materials such as willow or sumac. Since the Apache were...

This beautiful Alaskan seagrass basket with blue stripes has a orange bird/egret pattern that is overstitched on the basket.  This lidded basket is made by Lucy Leach, ca. 1990s. DETAILSArtist: Lucy LeachTribal Affiliation: Alaskan (Yupik)Size: 6" high including lid, 5"...

This vintage Hopi Second Mesa coiled plaque basket is beautifully crafted with a black and red dyed starburst design with deer. Woven from bear grass and yucca by renowned basket maker Joyce Ann Saufkie, ca. 1990.  Joyce Ann Saufkie is...

This large Papago basket is woven with a combination of coil and split stitch to make this beautiful pattern of caterpillars & bear tracks - Artist: John Lopez, 1991.  Woven from yucca, beargrass and black devil's claw with black devil's...

Vintage Native American Tohono O'odham (Papago) tall round coiled basket with a plant design. Made from devil's claw, yucca root and yucca leaves . Ca. 1990s DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: Tohono O'odham (Papago)Size:  8 1/4" diameter x 6 1/4" deepMaterials: devil's...

Wonderful Papago coiled basket with The Man in the Maze design.  Some say this design represents your journey through life. DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: Papago (Tohono O'odham)Size: 14 1/4" diameter x 1 3/4" deepMaterials: Yucca root and willowCondition: from a private...

A beautiful traditional Navajo wedding basket.  Woven with 12 rods. Labeled with a "Dead Pawn" tag. Traditional Navajo ceremonial baskets always include an open pathway from the center of the design, referred to as "the way out."  It represents the...

Such a unique piece!  This antique twined Northwest Coast basket-covered glass bottle has a removable basketry lid with a cork stopper.  What makes this piece so interesting is that the basket is woven directly onto the bottle.  Made in the...

Hopi plaque basket with brown and green "Looking Down" design.  Back of plaque has Grand Canyon start in the center, ca. 1940s  DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: HopiSize: 11 3/4" diameter x 1 1/2" deepMaterials: rabbit brush and dune brushCondition: from a...

Hopi plaque basket with red bearded katsinas design on a blue background.  Ca. 1940s  DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: HopiSize: 13 1/2" diameter x 1" deepMaterials: rabbit brush and dune brushCondition: from a private collection, weaving is in excellent condition, colors have...

Vintage Native American Tohono O'odham (Papago) deep coiled basket with a red diamond pattern. Made from devil's claw, yucca root and yucca leaves . Ca. 1990s DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: Tohono O'odham (Papago)Size:  10 1/2" diameter x 3" deepMaterials: devil's claw,...