B-243 A YOKUTS POLYCHROME GAMBLING TRAY, CIRCA 1900

This Yokuts gambling tray composed of bunch grass as coiled warp as foundation, and weft of sedge and brackenfern roots, with redbud for color.

ORIGIN

Unknown Yokuts artist, from the San Joaquin Valley of California, circa 1900.

DIMENSION

H 1.5IN x DIA 18IN
H 3.81CM x DIA 45.72CM

PROVENANCE

1) Ex-Sidney Newman Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Beverly Hills, California. Co-author of The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico, with Hasso von Winning, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1974. 2) The Brisacher Family Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Costa Mesa, California.

CONDITION

Very good.