Gift basket

Pomo, Native American

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Made as gifts, these three baskets signify wealth and prestige and exhibit the inventiveness of Pomo artists. One, a small, compressed assemblage covered completely in beads, is embellished with clamshell disks and quail topknot feathers. A second has a deep translucent red ground with bead and abalone shell pendants hanging from its rim and sides. The ribbed surface of the basketry coils and the beads on the third form a distinct textural contrast.

Gift basket, Sedge root, willow shoots, glass beads, and abalone shell, Pomo, Native American

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Gift basket, Sedge root, willow shoots, glass beads, and abalone shell, Pomo, Native American
Gift basket, Sedge root, willow shoots, glass beads, and abalone shell, Pomo, Native American
Gift basket, Sedge root, willow shoots, glass beads, and abalone shell, Pomo, Native American

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