"Descendants of Medicine Men" Degikup LK81
Southern Washoe
Nevada
ca. 1922
willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark
width: 14 ½"
Inventory # CS4543
Sold
LK81 can be seen in production in a photograph now in the collection of the Nevada State Museum, cat. no. 266030 - See: Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 119, fig. 189
PROVENANCE
The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist ca. 1922
Robert and Bunny Jochim, Cottonwood, AZ
EXHIBITED
With Beauty All Around Me, Scottsdale Center for Fine Arts, AZ, 1998
PUBLISHED
Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 119, fig. 189
Roanne P. Goldfein (ed.), With Beauty all Around Me, Scottsdale: Scottsdale Center for Fine Arts, 1998, pg. 28
RELATED EXAMPLES
For related baskets and an essay on Dat So La Lee's work see: Marvin Cohodas Phd, "Dat So La Lee's Basketry Design", in: American Indian Art Magazine, Autumn, 1976, pgs. 22-31
For an essay on Washoe basketry see: Marvin Cohodas Phd, “Washoe Innovators and Their Patrons”, in Edwin L. Wade (ed.), The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pgs. 203-210
Ralph T. Coe, Sherry Brydon, Gilbert T. Vincent (eds.), Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pg. 285, pl. T751
Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster (eds.), First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 238, pl. 187