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Exceptionally finely woven degikup basket with abstract symmetric red and black design elements | Donald Ellis Gallery
Original sales certificate of basket LK60 issued by the Emporium Company | Donald Ellis Gallery
Vintage sepia photographic portrait of Louisa Keyser | Donald Ellis Gallery
Vintage postcard featuring a sepia photograph of the basket LK60 | Donald Ellis Gallery

Myriads of Stars Shine Over Our Dead Ancestors Degikup LK60

Louisa Keyser (Dat So La Lee), 1850-1925
Southern Washoe
Nevada

1916

willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark

width: 15"

Inventory # S4403

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LK60 can be seen in several vintage postcards and photographs

PROVENANCE

The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist March 23, 1916
Jerold Collings, New Mexico
Gallery 10, Scottsdale, AZ
Private Collection, Arizona

PUBLISHED

Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 139, fig. 245

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

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