Finely Made Tohono O'odham Basketry Bowl

This is a medium sized Tohono O'odham basket woven using a traditional openwork technique; the design has a radiating split stitch pattern resembling a flower or star. Note how one side of the woven lines have a longer stitch to suggest movement! This was fashioned of desert plants: the weaver stitched together coiled bundles of beargrass or cattails with lengths of natural colored yucca. This is an unusally fine and thin walled piece! This is illegibly signed on back. It measures approx 9” H x 9” W x 1.5” D. The Tohono O'odham were formerly called the Papago; their name means "people of the desert." 

Excellent to Very Good Condition! This has a warm patina of age. No issues. 

Note: The Tohono O'odham lands range from southern AZ into northern Mexico. They were formerly known as the Papago. Their name translates to "people of the desert." They are closely related to the Akimel O'odham, formerly known as the Pima, whose name translates to "people of the river."

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