Lot 123: A fine and rare Nazca polychrome basket, 100 - 800 AD

Nazca, Peru; H: 4 3/4"

The coiled basket with typical Nazca patterning woven into the structure; the repeating motifs in yellow, brown and black. Tight weave and wonderful work. Minor losses as would be expected of an approximately 1500 year old basket, to one part of a single coil at the rim.

Comments:
These rare baskets found in dry burials in the Andes are among the earliest example of a Native American basketry known and display a complexity commensurate with any of the most adept basket making cultures of the 19th century.

Provenance:
Property of a Private West Coast collector

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