Tohono O'odham Woven Basket w/ Handle (#17)
$375.00
Artist: Tohono O'odham
Native American Basketry
10" across 8 1/2" tall
When this basket was first woven, sometime in the late 1960s or early 70s, the weaver would have been recognized as Papago. The Papago people are, however, now known as the Tohono O'odham. They are a Native American group primarily residing in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Today there is a Tohono O'odham Nation located in southern Arizona. It is unfortunate the weaver has gone undocumented. Whoever he/she was, however, the weaving abilities demonstrated with this basket are highly refined.
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The carrying basket is even less frequently seen than the water jar. tsizis (tsi, hair, and zis, or azis, a bag or pouch, from the mode of carrying it over the hair of the forehead) is used at present for gathering the hashkan, or yucca fruit, for syrup. The baskets are plaited of willow twigs much after the style of our own baskets, but have neither handle nor finished rim? More about this legend