Auction: August 16, 2020

Lot #183: Ethnographic Basket Assortment

Eighteen tribal items, mostly Asian and African, including a fabric and bead decorated woven container, Inuit sweet grass basket, African coiled bowl on a low foot having edges bound in leather and cowrie shell attachments, coiled lidded pedestal bowl, coiled storage baskets and trays, splint basket having leather elements and finish on the rim, three nesting Filipino bamboo baskets, two twined African examples and a Zulu telephone wire basket; together with a New Guinea Carved Decorative Assortment, five items including two painted wood masks, a stone bird, a painted wood and woven offering vessel and a male wood figure