VTG Very LARGE VINTAGE YUPIK BASKET For Sale

Did I say Large......About 14" tall and 10" across widest part. Incredible Yupik basket. Great condition with some loss color on outside. Just a great example.

"The Yup'ik are a group ofindigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern and south centralAlaska and the Russian Far East. They are Eskimo and are related to theInuit and Inupiat peoples. Yupik peoples are: Alutiiq or Sugpiaqof the Alaskan Peninsula; Central Alaskan Yup'ik of the Yukon-Kuskokwimdelta, the Kuskokwim River and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay and thenorthern Alaska Peninsula and Silberian Yupik.

As of 2001 there were approximately24,000 Yup'ik people, most of these residing in Alaska.

Yup'ik comes from the word yuk meaning"person". Pik means "real" or "genuine".Together they translate to "real people". taken fromWikipedia