Native American Baskets

As the floors of most tarahumara homes are dirt native baskets help keep personal items organized and clean.

Native american baskets.

Jicarilla apache waste basket. A tarahumara basket may be used to store corn beans or a number of other things. To use the brown ash entire logs had to be. Very fine early native american yavapai or apache basket circa 1900.

Southwestern indians hopi and navajo make baskets from tightly coiled sumac or willow and northwest coast indians typically weave with cedar bark swamp grass and spruce root. Late 1800 s native american apache indian pictorial woven basket lot. Southwest baskets serve many functions in a traditional tarahumara household. Fragments of baskets and other weavings are found in the earliest sites of the ancient ones those peoples thought to be the predecessors of today s modern puebloans who left their dwellings and mysterious painted symbols on stone and vanished.

Cherokee split oak basket. Yucca willow cottonwood and. The native american basket is perhaps the oldest invention of native american culture. Native american baskets of the southwest are hand made.

Jicarilla apache lidded basket. Originally utilitarian native american indian baskets were used for cooking carrying and storage but as with all utilitarian items of. Here native american baskets were made of materials like willow alder cedar maple beargrass. Brown ash and sweetgrass were typically used in this region.

Southeastern indians cherokee traditionally make baskets from bundled pine needles or rivercane wicker.