Tohono O'odham 3 Pedal Squash Blossom Willow Basket - Gladys Antone (#01)
$490.00
Artist: Gladys Antone
Native American Basketry
7" x 1" deep
Rounds: 16
Through the years, high quality Tohono O'odham baskets have become more and more uncommon. The O'odham people, formerly known as the Papago, are a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily on the Sonoran Desert of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. Tohono O'odham means ‘People of the Desert’. This basket was created out of willow, sometime in the 1970's by Gladys Antone. Gladys' workmanship and attention to detail place this vessel in the top 10% of O'odham baskets woven of this natural material. Symmetry, visual appeal and enduring quality make this basket highly collectible.
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Related legends:
Navajo Basketry
Basketry is a woman's industry, which is also pursued by the nadle (he changes), hermaphrodites, or men skilled in the arts and industries of both men and women. Basketry, however, is not classified with textile fabrics (yistl'o), but with sewing (nalkhad). It is of interest also that, while the basket is in progress, the sewer is untouched and avoided by the members of her family?