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Finely woven degikup basket with alternating symmetrically arranged red and black flame motifs | Donald Ellis Gallery
Original sales certificate of degikup LK31 issued by the Emporium Company | Donald Ellis Gallery
Vintage photograph of Louisa Keyser standing between two degikup baskets | Donald Ellis Gallery
Front and back of a vintage photograph of the basket LK31 | Donald Ellis Gallery

Sunrise Among the Hills Degikup LK31

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

1902

willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark

width: 13"

Inventory # S4404

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LK31 can be seen in several vintage postcards and photographs

PROVENANCE

The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist July 28, 1902 
Gallery 10, Scottsdale, AZ, 1992
Private Collection, Arizona

PUBLISHED

Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 131, fig. 216

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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