Material Culture Navajo Indian Basket

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1960: item #597283

Handwoven basketry bowl with ceremonial corn meal remnants, used by the Navajo Medicine Men as a bowl for sacred corn meal, the center hole is plugged with a piece of cloth. Very old style design of three sets of stacked arrows, may be for a particular ceremony.

Most baskets with this weave are handwoven by Paiute Indian ladies and purchased by the Navajo. Part of the payment to the Medicine Man is the basket, which he... Click for details

Old Nootka Makah Lidded Basket

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1950: item #545271

A trinket basket with lid woven by the Nootka or Makah Indians of the Northwest Coast area. Gift baskets like these were made for almost 100 years, but the finer they are the older they are. This one is probably from the post WWII era. Certainly no later than the 1950s.

Woven with closed wrap bear grass body coming from a plaited cedar bark start, aniline dyed purple ducks (more visible inside the basket) and bands... Click for details

Old Pima Indian Basket Whirling Logs

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1950: item #498413

Vintage willow and devils claw basketry tray from the Pima Indians of Arizona. Woven before 1950, the Whirling Logs or Tacit represents the dust devils in the desert, said to be the spirits of the ancestors. Two coyote tracks are offset.

Dimensions are 13" diameter by 3" deep. Excellent condition, no missing stitches or breaks. Slight age patina.... Click for details

Mi'kmaq SWEETGRASS & SPLINT COVERED BASKET c1900

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1910: item #494792
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A vintage Eastern Canada round covered sweetgrass and wood splint basket with colour decoration c1900. This 7-1/2" diameter and 3-1/4" high Mi'kmaq / Micmac or Penobscot basket has a twisted rope-style construction, and it retains bright dyed colours of the bottom and interior, in blue, red and orange. This basket, which was almost surely sold as a sewing basket originally, is in very good original condition with no breaks, cracks, material losses, damage or repairs other than the fading of th... Click for details

Northern Paiute beaded bowl with Lid

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1930: item #422014
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Northern California 1920's height 4.5cm width 5.6cm Close examination of the bead work shows enough open area between the beads to place its date as being 1920 to 1930. Red,white and blue(two shades) in stepped triangle design. Constructed of coiled willow.

Pima Indian Polychrome Basket

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1970: item #349192

Circa 1960s Pima Indian basketry olla, willow, and devils claw with mesquite dyed willow for red. The design is called 'Coyote dragging his foot'.

Nicely woven stitches, 6 1/4" tall by 7 1/4" across. Three colored baskets are called polychrome and are relatively rare among the Pima.

Buyer pays $12.00 for shipping.... Click for details

Pima Indian Basketry Olla

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1970: item #349190

A willow and devils claw basket by the Pima Indians of Arizona. Woven in the olla shape, 6 1/4" tall by 6 1/4" across. You can tell by the color that this is not more than 40 years old, willow takes many years to turn golden. Beautiful diamond design.

Buyer pays $10.00 for shipping.

Old Territorial Shop is known for selling high quality an... Click for details

Pima Indian Willow Olla

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1970: item #349187

Willow and devils claw basketry olla by the Pima Indians of Arizona, circa 1960s. This basket is a late period willow basket, very little basketry being done after the 1970s. Fret design on a small, 5 1/2" tall by 6 1/4" wide, olla shaped basket.

Mint condition. You can tell the age by the color, it takes willow many years to turn golden. <... Click for details

Cecilia Henry Apache Indian Burden Basket

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1980: item #337615

The Apache Indians of central Arizona are world famous for their basketry skills. One hundred years ago the women wove coiled willow trays that were as sturdy as pottery. But trade goods like pots and pans and buckets took the place of those, so today, the only baskets being produced on the San Carlos Reservation are burden baskets, which were used as a back pack for carrying heavy loads (by the women). Twined construction of squaw bush and willow with leather thongs and tin cones. The jingle... Click for details

Apache Indian Burden basket by Cecilia Henry

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Baskets Pre 1980: item #337614

The Apache Indians of central Arizona are world famous for their basketry skills. One hundred years ago the women wove coiled willow trays that were as sturdy as pottery. But trade goods like pots and pans and buckets took the place of those, so today, the only baskets being produced on the San Carlos Reservation are burden baskets, which were used as a back pack for carrying heavy loads (by the women). Twined construction of squaw bush and willow with leather thongs and tin cones. The jingle... Click for details