A group of four Yokuts woven baskets, California, early 20th century

A group of four Yokuts woven baskets, California, early 20th century

Including a large cooking basket, a gambling tray, a large shallow bowl, and an oval tray.

Dia: 25 in. (largest)

Provenance

Collected by famed Philadelphia photographer, H. Armstrong Roberts (1883-1947), on trips to the American and Canadian West in the 1920s and 1930s.
By descent in the family to the present owner.
Condition Report: lot 156: cooking basket: overall in fine condition, somewhat soiled and dusty, a couple areas of white paint transfer along rim; gambling tray: some losses, breaks, and unraveling to rim; oval tray: one area of loss / wrapping to rim, somewhat soiled; large tray: with breaks and losses to rim, the surface soiled