Gambling Tray
Yokuts
Central California
ca. 1890
marsh grass, bracken fern root, Western redbud
width: 29 ½"
Inventory # S4461
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PROVENANCE
Helen Harvey, Porterville, CA
Cummings Collection, Porterville, CA
Bob and Carol Adams, Arizona
Herbert Wellington Collection, Long Island, NY
Robert and Bunny Jochim Collection, California
PUBLISHED
Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 42, fig. 48
See also pg. 40, fig. 45, for a photograph of the basket in situ in the office in the Cummings' home
Douglas Ewing, Pleasing The Spirits, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982, pg. 387, fig.478
RELATED EXAMPLES
The Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, cat. no. T0797 – See: Eva Fognell and Alexander Marr Brier (eds.), Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2010, pgs.108-109
The Cummings Collection, Portersville, CA – See: Jerold Collings, "The Yokuts Gambling Tray," American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 1, g.10, fig.1