Kawaiisu (Nüwa) Basket Bowl

Henry Claiborne "Clay" Lockett, Flagstaff, Arizona

Jerry A. Collins, Sedona, Arizona

George Everett Shaw, Aspen, Colorado

American Private Collection, acquired from the above on August 13, 1986

George Everett Shaw, Art of the Ancestors: Antique North American Indian Art, Aspen, 2004, p. 166

Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence, San Diego, 2021, p. 292, fig. 594

The delicate design of this exceptionally fine Kawaiisu basket features opposing sets of four points set upon two concentric crenellated bands, and was published in Thompson and Meieran 2021 (Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence, San Diego, 2021, p. 292, fig. 594) in their section ‘Masterpiece Baskets by Unidentified Weavers’. It is distinctive in its use of a generous light-colored ground of willow with thin, sharp geometric black dyed-bulrush design. A basket incorporating a similar design is in the Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles (inv. no. 611.G.317).