$55.00

9" Native American hand-woven basket. Styles may vary.

Tohono O'Odham Indian Basket

The Papago Indians, now called Tohono O'Odham (The People of the Desert), inhabit over 50 villages within their beautiful reservation in southern Arizona. Here they still gather the materials for their baskets as their ancestors did. This authentic piece of American Indian art consists of two parts; the warp (or inner coil) is made of bear grass; the weft (or design) is harvested either from the soap tree yucca cactus (greed and white), the pod of the devil's claw (black), or the roots of the banana yucca cactus (red). All colors occur naturally; no dyes are utilized.