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A superbly woven willow degikup basket with black bracken fern root and red birch bark flame designs | Donald Ellis Gallery

"The Signal Code" Degikup LK50

Louisa Keyser (Dat So La Lee), 1850-1925
Southern Washoe
Nevada

1911

willow, bracken fern root, red birch bark

width: 15 ¼"

Inventory # CS4557

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A photograph of LK50 is featured on all certificates of authenticity issued by The Emporium Company. LK51 can also be seen in a photograph taken by Edward Curtis in 1924

PROVENANCE

The Emporium Company, Carson City, NV, obtained from the artist January 28, 1911
Lew Meekins, Dallas, TX

PUBLISHED

Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran, California Indian Basketry, Ikons of the Florescence, El Cajon: Sunbelt Publications, 2021, pg. 123, fig. 198