(That is the same one I found in the NMAI collection. Note that no date was provided for that basket.) I have seen pedestals on some other Native...
Another observation about the base - [ATTACH] See those tiny vertical stitches, just above the slightly darker coil? Those may be evidence of...
One option I have considered is that the basket was originally a little mortar basket, made with an opening at the bottom and used on top of a...
Is your question directed at me? A little hard to tell what is going on with that basket based on the 2 photos - an inner basket sitting in a...
I have looked at the online collections of the Peabody Museum -...
It is an interesting basket. I agree that the materials and technique look like Pima. I suspect the base is actually a repair - the stitches do...
Well, I can't see schreger lines (which doesn't mean they aren't there - often difficult to see in photos), but the concentric cracks on the...
The term has come to be applied to many materials, as mmarco notes, which makes it less useful for describing objects, and more important to be...
Have you positively identified it as elephant ivory? May we see the bottom cross section? I don't believe NA carvers typically work with elephant...
The painting that @Marote found is described as an oil painting on wood panel, not on canvas, 28 x 48 cm - about 11 x 19". If the original image...
The form looks similar to these baskets made by Lorena Langley, a Coushatta weaver - [ATTACH]...
If it is in fact a charcoal drawing the surface will be very easily smudged. I am surprised it looks as good as it does given the age. Any...
This bowl looks similar, described as "Renaissance bronze 'pass' drinking bowl", ca, 1500. [ATTACH]...
The colors and design look more Islamic than Chinese. I wonder if it was made in China, but for the southeast Asian - Thai/Malay - market....
The leather and stitching look like a western (European/British Isles/American) harness maker's work. At that length and with the weighted head, I...
This is the correct orientation - [ATTACH] Gotheborg.com shows the mark, and describes it as a "Yamatoku" mark, dating to "late Meiji - Taisho,...
This one is similar, and described as vintage India -...
Definitely not Hopi. I don't know of any way to determine age, but would guess that it is not terribly old.
It is difficult to be sure from only one photo, and you don't say how large the figure is. But the style of the carving looks similar to ancestor...
It is a common type of ladle/dipper, still made and used in southeast Asia. Made of coconut shell.
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