Basket

Pima people, Native American

About 1900

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Halibut Hook - Top willow 11.125 inches long. Bird carving shows one wing. Bottom cedar. Iron barb. Fish line lashing. cf. 1078. Wm Benson calls it "crow".
Cylindrical vessel with painted, rawhide interior and tanned white deer hide exterior; beaded imagery includes woman dangling from rope and two trees; stars and constellations in Swarovski crystals; porcupines, hands, ants, and portrait heads are in silver.
Made with the end cut down all around as though a handle had been attached.
Spruce root basket of cylindrical shape. Most of the weaving is alternate plaiting and twining. A 3/4" band at the top is twined. Somewhat broken. No lugs though lugs have been on at an earlier time.