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This basket is made of ash splints and is white on the interior. The exterior is decorated with designs painted in native dyes using a swabbing stick which has been pounded at one end to form a brush.
This basket and the basket from Maine are rare examples of the old Indian art of moose hair embroidery. A cluster of very fine hair grows from the withers of the wild moose and...
6. c. 1875This unusually large specimen is almost three feet tall. Since about 1914, very few, if any, as large as this have been made. An Indian woman would have to devote three to four...
3. c. 1870This rare, small birch bark pail is called a “Mourning Bowl.” It is used during the _Feast of the Dead_, a sacred ceremony which is held one year after burial to honor the decea...
2. c. 1837Annually, in July when the fruit of the Saguaro Cactus is ripe, the _Papagos_ hold their _Nahwehteete_ (wine drinking) ceremony. The purpose of this ceremony is to offer a praye...
4. c. 1937This coiled basket is covered with the feathers of about two hundred quail. The feathers which protrude from the basket, are from the head of the Valley Quail, or Gambel’s Quail...
10. c. 1850The bags were used as travel bags and were tied to the back of the cantle of the saddle. They were known to have been in use at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 180...
11. c. 1903One of the finest examples of the Indian woman’s native creative arts is found in porcupine quill decoration. The artist formerly prepared her own dyes from berries, roots, bark...
8. c. 1890This carrying, or burden, basket, referred to by _Papagos_ as _Kiaha_, is made of stems from the Cereus Giganteus Cactus and the twine from leaves of the Maguey plant. The Mague...
1. c. 1835This basket is made of ash splints and is white on the interior. The exterior is decorated with designs painted in native dyes using a swabbing stick which has been pounded at o...
5. c. 1900Evidence of the importance of basketry among the southwestern peoples of the United States in the first few centuries of our era lies in the fact that these peoples and their cu...
7. c. 1875This water-tight boiling basket is made of spruce roots which have been finely split by hand. It is woven as tightly as commercially woven canvas water bags. These baskets are n...
9. c. 1890These three trays are used for roasting shelled nuts such as hazel nuts and pinon nuts. The nuts are placed on the tray along with red-hot wood coals. A revolving motion is appl...