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Tohono O'odham


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Title: Split Stitch Basketry Olla
Artist: Tohono O'odham
Medium: Bear grass foundation adorned with bleached yucca
Size: 3 5/8 height X 5 maximum diameter
Signed: Attached paper tag names basketmaker as Patsy Angea
Date of creation: Circa 1975
Condition: Mint !!!
Design: Cross stitched treatment at basket's rim, diagonal split stitching enhances the basket's neck and main body.; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Artwork

This pristine example of excellent workmanship bore a hand-written tag inside "Made with Bear Grass and laced with yucca from the Arizona Desert. This basket was made by Patsy Angea on the Papago Indian Reservation in Sells, Arizona"

About The Artist

Tohono O'odham basket makers are among the finest in Native America. All materials are natural, as are all the colors - no dyes are ever used. Preparing the materials and forming the baskets is a very labor-intensive process. The basketry created by this tribe is best described by Terry De Wald in his book The Papago Indians and Their Basketry. Mr. De Wald has been a trader specializing in their basketry for more than 25 years.

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