Tray

Arches ripple symmetrically from the center of this basket. They overlap to form a series of zones occupied by human and animal figures. The artist elaborated on ancestral techniques for coiling baskets to create this work for early tourist markets in the Southwest.

This basket is based on a spiraling foundation of shoots from cottonwood or willow trees. The artist sewed each stitch using evenly split strands of the material. To create the black designs, she used dried seed pods of the southwestern shrub devil’s claw.