EIGHT AMERICAN INDIAN BASKETS: an Aleut wallet with embroidered motifs in coloured silks; a larger wallet with woven quatrefoils in dark fibre; two Tlingit flared baskets, one with woven geometric motifs, the other with four butterflies; a small circular basket and cover; a hexagonal basket and cover with design of twisted fibres; a rectangular basket and cover with woven design of pale and dark fibres; and a circular basket and cover with woven green zigzags and green foliate motif to the cover

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EIGHT AMERICAN INDIAN BASKETS: an Aleut wallet with embroidered motifs in coloured silks; a larger wallet with woven quatrefoils in dark fibre; two Tlingit flared baskets, one with woven geometric motifs, the other with four butterflies; a small circular basket and cover; a hexagonal basket and cover with design of twisted fibres; a rectangular basket and cover with woven design of pale and dark fibres; and a circular basket and cover with woven green zigzags and green foliate motif to the cover
3.5cm. to 13cm. high (8)
Provenance
Acquired by the vendor from an elderly lady who had purchased them in America in 1905 whilst on a trip to "finish her education"

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