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Large willow basket with alternating rows of black and red design elements | Donald Ellis Gallery

Sunlight Degikup LK46

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

1908/9

willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark

width: 16 ½"

Inventory # CS4542

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PROVENANCE

The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist in 1909
Robert and Claire Hardiman, Pennsylvania
Ken and Judy Siebel, California

PUBLISHED

Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 125, fig. 203

EXHIBITED 

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2020

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