EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA YOKUTS RATTLESNAKE DESIGN BASKET,EXCELLENT COND

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EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE CALIFORNIA YOKUTS RATTLESNAKE DESIGN BASKET, EXCELLENT CONDITION
This beautiful basket represents some of the finest work of American Indian basketry.  Made from willow, redbud and bracken root.  Luminous patina.  Excellent overall condition.
Measures approximately 6.25” D x 3.34” H.  Circa 1890.  Fresh to the marketplace.
“The Yokuts, whose members traditionally spoke the Yokutsan language lived in the central San Joaquin Valley region of California.  Their territory stretched roughly from Stockton in the north down to Bakersfield in the south.  They were formerly called the Tulare Indians by the Spanish settlers, meaning "people of the tules," tule being a type of marsh plant found in the shallow lakes and wetlands that once existed throughout traditional Yokuts territory. They were at one time a very large tribe with estimates of 25,000 to 35,000 people in 1772 when the Spanish first arrived in the area. Today their population has shrunk to a fraction of that number.
The Yokuts were well known for their beautifully woven polychrome baskets with some of the very finest North American Indian baskets coming from the hands of Yokuts weavers.”
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