These three miniature beaded Apache baskets were woven by Tu Moonwalker. Orange and blue beaded designs adorn each basket, displayed inside a case. They are in perfect condition.
Tu is nationally and internationally known as an accomplished artisan. She is listed in three different books as a contemporary basket maker:
Traditions in Transition: Contemporary Basket Weaving of the Southwest Indians,
Miniature Arts of the Southwest, and
Lost and Found Traditions. "Fibre Arts Magazine," "Miniature Collector," and
"House Beautiful" profiled her work. Between 1980 - 1989, she won several first, second, and third prize awards for basketry, feather work, beadwork, and leatherwork in juried shows in Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico, including the New Mexico State Fair, Gallup Ceremonial, and Indian Market. Her artwork is in several private and museum collections nationally and internationally including the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian Institution.
Tu's accomplishments were many. Academically, she holds undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Biochemistry and graduate degrees in Museum Science and Geology. Musically gifted, she collaborated on the lyrics for
"Puff the Magic Dragon" and
"Dust in the Wind." Her recent book,
Business Revolution through Ancestral Wisdom, received the 2009 New Mexico Book Award in Business.
Tu Moonwalker was born of Apache and South American Native American parents in 1950. Tu was raised on the White Mountain Apache reservations in Arizona. At age two, she was diagnosed with polio. Dying in her early sixties in 2011, Tu was the oldest post-polio survivor known. Source: legacy.com
Circa: 1980s
Diameters from 3/4"
Lengths to 1 1/8"
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