Gene Quintana Fine Arts

Mission

The Mission Indian baskets mostly originated from the tribes gathered around the San Clemente area. Mission Indians often incorporated pictorials, eagles, snakes, and other animals into their designs.

The Mission Indians are actually groups of different tribes who were mixed together during the early mission days. At the time, missionaries were forcibly relocating locals to the missions as workers and residents. It was at these missions that the tribes would mix together and later be known as Mission Indians.
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A very large Mission style polychrome olla
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Item#: 7019
Decorating the shoulder of the basket are men and women friendship figures, holding hands and dancing the friendship dance. The sides are decorated with a polychrome design. The basket has been on display at the Rancho Los Alamites History Museum in Long Beach, California. Circa: 2011 Height: 22in. Diameter: 21in.
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A Very Nice Mission Globular-shaped Pictorial basket
Item#: SOLD - 7004
Decorated with tall figures covering the sides from bottom edge to the top of the basket. the basket has a nice polychrome decoration on the bottom. Circa:1890 Height: 6 1/2in Diameter: 9 1/2in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A Rare Mission Cahuilla Woman's Hat
Item#: SOLD - 5073
Woven by Mary Quintano of the Martinez Reservation. The hat has a horizontal polychrome band of diamonds. Circa: 1915 Diameter: 8in Height: 4 1/2in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
Cahuilla Mission olla basket with five condors
Item#: 5016-50
Mrs Castro's Olla Basket, a fine and rare olla-shaped basket decorated with five California condors and a meander, or Greek key fret design. The Cahuilla celebrated numerous avian species in their celebrated bird songs. Circa: 1915 Diameter: 10 1/2in Height: 7in Pictured in the book Southern California Indian Basketry, page 97.
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A Mission Turtle basket
Item#: 3089
Decorated with a large turtle in the center and two on the sides. Circa: 1910 Diameter: 11in Height: 2in Deaccessioned from the Hopewell Museum, NJ
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A Mission pictorial bowl basket
Item#: 5016-15
Featuring on its sides eagles, deer, and men and women holding hands. It too has a star on the bottom. Circa: 1920 Diameter: 13in Height: 9 1/2in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A Mission tray with a squirrel, rabbit and deer
Item#: 5016-58
With a star in the center. Circa: 1915 Length: 15in Width: 13 1/2 Height: 3 1/2in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
A contemporary Mission rattlesnake tray
Item#: 5011-81
Circa: 2005 Diameter: 17in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
Mission hat with bugs, elk and bats
Item#: 5005-18
This polychrome Mission hat by Abe Sanchez is woven with images of insects, bats and elk, among its geometric designs. Circa: 2000 Diameter: 16in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
Mission tray
Item#: 5017-11
Circa: 1920 Length: 15in Width: 12in Height: 2 3/4in
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Indian Baskets - Mission
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