Huge 19" Antique Mono Indian Mush Basket w/ Flight of the Butterfly Motif c.1890 For Sale


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Huge 19" Antique Mono Indian Mush Basket w/ Flight of the Butterfly Motif c.1890:
$6375.00

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Item: Large Mono Indian Acorn Soup/Mush Basket Community Feast Basket with Flight of the Butterfly Motif

Culture/Tribe: Mono , Central California

Artist/Maker: unsigned

Date/Circa: c.1890s

Size: 11" x 19"

Materials: Coiled in Sedge and brackenfern

Description: Very large feast bowl in Mint condition; this type of basket was used to cook large amounts of acorn mush which could be eaten hot like soup or dried into cakes. The Acorn meal was placed with water in this basket and heated with hot stones. This basket is in mint condition so would have been traded or sold immediately after it was woven

Condition: Mint or Near mint condition.

Provenance: From a private estate collection.

ITRef#: 021025-23

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