Sarah Jim Mayo Washoe, (1860-1918), a polychrome pictorial degikup basket, four branching plant forms at the cardinal points, each variously adorned with leaves, blossoms and roosting birds, the adjacent spaces populated with an array of flowers, geometric motifs, arrows, a horse, a vulture and an eagle with an inverted American flag. diameter 10in, height 6in Footnotes: Provenance Transitional Arts, Prescott, AZ A Private Midwest Collection, acquired from the above February 2006 Illustrated Garfinkel, Alan P., editor, California Indian Basketry; Ikons of the Florescence, 2021, Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 70, fig. 89 For an overview of Sarah Jim Mayo's life and the evolution of her artistic style, see Cohodas, Marvin, Degikup, Washoe Fancy Basketry 1895-1935, The Fine Arts Gallery of the University of British Columbia, 1979, pp. 46-50. 'Sarah Mayo may be considered one of the most innovative and influential Washoe artists. Sarah developed the use of massive designs, the integration of both colours in the design, and the alternating arrangement a decade before these features became standard in Washoe basketry. Most importantly, it appears that Sarah Mayo was the first Washoe weaver to develop pictorial imagery. Whatever their source, these pictorial designs were so successful, both commercially and artistically, that they were imitated by almost all contemporary and succeeding Washoe basketweavers. Despite the number of artists who imitated her work, no other weaver represented these naturalistic motifs with the dynamic vigor and ingenuity of formal planning that characte3rize the best of Sarah's art.' Ibid., p. 50 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing