Ye'kuana (Makiritare)
Venezuelan Amazon
1980s
Woven fiber
Height 17 1/2" (44.5 cm) x Diameter 19 1/2" (49.5 cm)
Provenance: Tyrone Campbell, Santa Fe, NM
The Ye'kuana people of the Venezuelan Amazon are among the most accomplished basket weavers in South America, producing large coiled and twined vessels with complex geometric and figural imagery drawn from their cosmological traditions, and this basket exemplifies that tradition at substantial scale. The monkey motif repeated in the central band is rendered with the precise, angular geometry characteristic of Ye'kuana figural basketry, the figure identifiable by its posture and tail within a field of interlocking geometric devices. The basket comes with a ribbon and accompanying documentation about the weaver, adding to its provenance as an identified piece of contemporary indigenous craft.
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Ye'kuana (Makiritare)
Venezuelan Amazon
1980s
Woven fiber
Height 17 1/2" (44.5 cm) x Diameter 19 1/2" (49.5 cm)
Provenance: Tyrone Campbell, Santa Fe, NM
The Ye'kuana people of the Venezuelan Amazon are among the most accomplished basket weavers in South America, producing large coiled and twined vessels with complex geometric and figural imagery drawn from their cosmological traditions, and this basket exemplifies that tradition at substantial scale. The monkey motif repeated in the central band is rendered with the precise, angular geometry characteristic of Ye'kuana figural basketry, the figure identifiable by its posture and tail within a field of interlocking geometric devices. The basket comes with a ribbon and accompanying documentation about the weaver, adding to its provenance as an identified piece of contemporary indigenous craft.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
