Offered is our third Native American or First Nation item this week:
This is an amazing tiny piece of artwork. Kind of hard to let it go, which explains my higher starting offer (similar ones listed online are for sale for $300 and up).
This is a Tohono O\'odham horsehair basket in a rare upright olla shape. It has cacti and houses. Style is very similar to work by the master weavers, Ruby Thomas, or possibly Adeline Manuel. I see one identified as a Ruby Thomas basket that looks exactly the same, but this did not have any attribution when I purchased it.
It measures 1 1/8\" by 3/4\" .
Excellent. A few stray pieces of horsehair stick up on bottom edge and one on rim. As with any handmade item, it isn\'t perfectly uniform and the bottom is a bit uneven. Please see pictures.
We purchased this a few years ago from an Illinois collection of miniature Native American baskets. He collected baskets from various tribes across the country from the 1960s-early 2000s. The price on a sticker inside was $80.
I decided to let it go because we aren\'t displaying it.
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