Beautiful Basket with Bird Mexican or Southwest American hand made folk art nr


Beautiful Basket with Bird Mexican or Southwest American hand made folk art nr

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Beautiful Basket with Bird Mexican or Southwest American hand made folk art nr:
$60.00


Dakota Arts Northern Mexican or Southwest American Basket with Thunderbird 


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Indian Basket w/Thunderbird, approximately 1980s, made of grass. Measures 12\" x 1\". May be from Northern Mexico. Nice looking basket with bird design, appears to be a thunderbird.  No damage. The website Native Languages.org offers the following about Native American baskets: \"Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native American crafts--there are ancient Indian baskets from the Southwest that have been identified by archaeologists as nearly 8000 years old. As with most Native American art, there were originally multiple distinct basketry traditions in North America. Different tribes used different materials, weaving techniques, basket shapes, and characteristic patterns. Northeast Indian baskets, for example, are traditionally made out of pounded ash splints or braided sweetgrass. Cherokee and other Southeast Indian baskets are traditionally from bundled pine needles or rivercane wicker. Southwestern Indians make baskets from tightly coiled sumac or willow wood, and Northwest Coast Indians typically weave with cedar bark, swamp grass, and spruce root. Northern Indian tribes like the Ojibwe and Dene craft birchbark baskets, and the Inuit even make whale baleen baskets (though this is a more recent tradition than the American Indian ones). As native people were displaced from their traditional lands and lifestyles, their traditional tribal basketweaving styles started to change somewhat as they adapted to new materials and absorbed the customs of new neighbors, and in places like Oklahoma where many tribes were interred together, fusion styles of basketweaving arose. However, unlike some traditional native crafts, the original diversity of Native American basket styles is still very much evident today. \"ABOUT ME:I ran the gallery Blue & White America, Inc., operating out Tokyo, Japan and the US, offering Japanese and Asian antiques on the internet from 1998-2006 .  I have also lived in Hawaii and collected some Hawaiian and California modernist art, mostly works on paper.  I have a few things left I will offer on here at a reasonable price.  I left dealing art for the care of my family. From 2002-2005 my gallery \"Seigetsu-do\" was in Kyoto. I specialized in Japanese Ceramics: Imari and Arita porcelains, Folk and Tea Ceremony ceramics  I make every effort to represent merchandise HONESTLY AND ACCURATELY, and GUARANTEE  ITEMS as represented. NEW STATEMENT as of OCT 14: Antique items have AGE.  With age comes surface wear and minor, normal wear from use.  I will not ISSUE A REFUND based on what I consider normal wear-very minor nicks, normal surface scratching, signs of use.  IE no nitpicking-please don\'t expect old items to show no signs of age.   I have witnessed countless shenanigans in this field and want no part of it!  I prefer payment by paypal or check until cleared.  I am a mother and work so I will do my best to ship two days a week, please be patient.  Articles about my business appeared in Japanese magazines (2004 and 2005), and in the fashion magazine Women\'s Wear Daily and in US Japan Business News, I also wrote for the Japanese magazine Daruma (2000 and 2002), Sothebys \"Connoisseur Magazine\" and has exhibited in the past in New York City during Asian Art Week.  Please only serious buyers, I have conducted years and thousands of happy transactions and look forward to doing business with you! 
       
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Beautiful Basket with Bird Mexican or Southwest American hand made folk art nr:
$60.00

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