Green bottle covered in Red Cedar. Alaska. Handwoven by Holly Churchill (Haida) For Sale

Okay you Northwest Coast Native Basket Lovers.Here is a bottle covered with the Haida weaving in Red cedar.This is guaranteed authentic.Made in the State of Alaska.Tribal affiliation: HaidaIt has the hand made hand logo signifying it was made by an Alaskan Artist.Holly Churchill followed a family of Master weaver\'s
The below is courtesy of Artic Spirit Gallery

Holly Churchill is an accomplished weaver in Haida basketry. Born and raised in Ketchikan, Holly grew up in an atmosphere focusing on her Haida culture. As young girl, she heard the Haida language spoken daily, gathered cedar bark and spruce roots for weaving, harvested medicinal plants and prepared traditional foods. Her grandmother, the late Selina Peratrovich renowned weaver, taught Holly to harvest and prepare weaving materials. Her mother, master weaver Delores Churchill, taught Holly to weave.

Holly’s basketry reflects this continual flow of information and her insatiable need to discover all the possibilities of the Haidabasketrytradition while ensuring the art is not lost. Holly has traveled to New Zealand to meet with the Maori community of weavers to compare basketry design, weaving techniques and language with that of the Haida nation. She has demonstrated Haida basketry at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival at the Mall in Washington, D.C.

Her work has been included in exhibitions and in collections throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Seattle Art Museum, the Alaska State Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, the Tongass Historical Museum, and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.

She continues to teach both adult and children’s classes on weaving, design, and materials gathering and preparation at the Ketchikan Totem Heritage Center, throughout Alaska and the Northwest. In 2015, Holly joined the Alaska State Council on the Arts State Teaching Artist Roster and is sharing her cultural traditions and weaving skills participating in residency programs in Alaskan schools.

While the original yellowed tag for this bottle shows a price of \"200 dollars\" which might have been the price in the 1970\'s, Bottles like these can sell for up to a 1,000 dollars or more.If you do a quick web search for Holly Churchill you won\'t find many of these bottles for sale, probably because the Cedar weaved bottles have been all bought up and the people who purchased them aren\'t selling them.This Master piece belongs in a museum.
Shipping for this bottle is free Priority shipping to anywhere in the USA for free.I will pay for insurance up to the purchase cost of the item, Although it will look nice in you house also admired by all.I offer a two week money back guarantee, however, if you do decide to return it, I ask that you pay for the insurance cost of the purchase price of the bottle to get back to me safely as you would be the one to make the claim at the post office.Did I mention free Priority shipping?Sorry only USA offerding only.No International Buyers, Sorry!buyers in Alaska and Hawaii are welcome!!! Still free shipping.There is a High demand for Alaska Native art, so don\'t wait until the last minute to offer on this.I will list this as a $179.99 opening offer
I will ship within one day unless the sale ends on Sunday then I would ship the next business day
Disclaimer: the water bottle, pictured along side of the cedar bottle is not part of the sale, its just there as a size comparison.
Did you hear that? That was \"The Call of the Wild\" for you to make a trip to Alaska and see the sights and to go out fishing. Travel to Alaska and buy some Alaskan Native art work, but if the Covid travel restriction blues have you down, buy this awesome piece of Authentic Alaska Native artwork and let it come to you.Thank you so much for your interest.Good buy! hint hint10% of the sale of this item will go to the \"World Vision\" Charity