Native American Baskets
Fragments of baskets and other weavings are found in the earliest sites of the ancient ones those peoples thought to be the predecessors of today s modern puebloans who left their dwellings and mysterious painted symbols on stone and vanished.
Native american baskets. Native american baskets of the southwest are hand made. Late 1800 s native american apache indian pictorial woven basket lot. Here native american baskets were made of materials like willow alder cedar maple beargrass. Brown ash and sweetgrass were typically used in this region.
Native american indian baskets. Southwest baskets serve many functions in a traditional tarahumara household. Cherokee split oak basket. Southwestern indians hopi and navajo make baskets from tightly coiled sumac or willow and northwest coast indians typically weave with cedar bark swamp grass and spruce root.
Southeastern indians cherokee traditionally make baskets from bundled pine needles or rivercane wicker. Originally utilitarian native american indian baskets were used for cooking carrying and storage but as with all utilitarian items of. Yucca willow cottonwood and. Make offer very fine early native american yavapai or apache basket circa 1900.
As the floors of most tarahumara homes are dirt native baskets help keep personal items organized and clean. A tarahumara basket may be used to store corn beans or a number of other things. Jicarilla apache waste basket. Jicarilla apache lidded basket.
Cherokee split oak basket.