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Yokuts Large Basket Bowl

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Native Americana Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Yokuts Large Basket Bowl
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Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite#309
Reno, NV 89511
Thursday April 11, 10am-6pm
* Preview also available by appointment

Live Auction
Friday & Saturday
April 12-13, 2012
9am PDT starting time, both days

Location
Atlantis Casino & Resort
Grand Ballroom #4
3800 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89502

Lot Pick Up
Holabird-Kagin Americana Office
3555 Airway Drive Suite #309
Reno, NV 89511
Sunday April 14th, 10am-1pm

These fine--and very old--baskets came from the Phoebe Hearst and John Muir collections, and may date before 1890, according to an internal family letter in the possession of Holabird-Kagin Americana, provided with this lot.
This collection is was assembled by an American industrialist and is currently held by the family.



Phoebe Hearst (1842-1919) was the wife of Senator George Hearst and mother of William Randolph Hearst. A true philanthropist, she supported a wide range of organizations and in fact was the first major benefactor of the University of California at Berkeley and its first woman regent, just one of her many causes. In 1901 she founded the California Lowie Museum of Anthropology, which was later renamed the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, with an original collection of approximately 230,00 objects depicting and representing cultures and civilizations throughout history [Ref: www.notablebiographies.com].
John Muir (1838-1914) needs no introduction. Suffice it to say he remains probably America’s foremost naturalist and preservationist author. He has given his name to numerous parks, monuments and wilderness areas of America. He devoted his life to making Americans aware of the precious natural resources of their country and the need to preserve them. A beautiful large Southern Yokuts bowl measuring 22" diameter and 8.5" in height, consisting of a red (redbud) and black (bracken fern or bulrush tule) vertical design of gradually widening trapezoids expanding from the base of the basket, on a natural ground. The circumference of the base is has a single coil black band, and the same black band is seen 3 rows below the top edge, which is rim ticked (stripes placed along the basket’s top edge). Top rim has missing pieces. From the Phoebe Hearst/John Muir Collection.

HKA#64015