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Maidu-Miwok Basket, CA - ,Nevada County

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Maidu-Miwok Basket, CA - ,Nevada County
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
c1900 - A beautiful and sturdy little basket, measuring approximately 4.5” diameter and about 4.5” tall. Coil construction on rods with a triangle design element in an overall pattern of redbud. No missing or broken stitches. but is more likely Maidu. The Maidus originally inhabited the area of the Feather and Consumnes rivers in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains, north and east of Sacramento in what is now Nevada County, CA. In Maiduan languages, Maidu means "person"

The Sierra Miwok people inhabited the Mokelumne & the Calaveras River drainages in the north to the Merced and Chowchilla River drainages in the south [Ref: www.roseville.ca.us/parks/parks_n_facilities/facilities/maidu_indian_museum/maidu_people asp. and www.californiabaskets.com/pages/miwokhome.html].



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