Vintage Lidded Labrador Oval Basket
Yup'ik Eskimo
- Marked Down $450.00
- Gallery Price $750.00
- Title
- Vintage Lidded Labrador Oval Basket
- Artist
- Yup'ik Eskimo
- Medium
- Bundle foundation-coiled using wild grass with red and black yarn
- Size
- 7" height (excluding handle) X 10" length X 8" width
- Coil count
- 5 coils per inch
- Stitch count
- 16 stitches per inch
- Date of creation
- Circa 1920
- Condition
- Good, not excellent as braided handle is not attached on one side. Mild wear on bottom with three missing stitches. Faint surface dust accumulation.
- Provenance
- An Bu
- About The Vintage Lidded Labrador Oval Basket
Hold this basket upside down and its lid will not come off.
Its lid is marvelously fitted.
- About Yup'ik Eskimo
- "The Yup'ik are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern and south central Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are Eskimo and are related to the Inuit and Inupiat peoples. Yupik peoples are: Alutiiq or Sugpiaq of the Alaskan Peninsula; Central Alaskan Yup'ik of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta, the Kuskokwim River and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula and Silberian Yupik.As of 2001 there were approximately 24,000 Yup'ik people, most of these residing in Alaska.Yup'ik comes from the word yuk meaning "person". Pik means "real" or "genuine". Together they translate to "real people". taken from Wikipedia
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