Horsehair baskets among the Tohono O’odham may have started as early as the 1930s but were not common until the 1950s. Very large and intricate ones were made in the 1970s and 80s but are no longer being made as the number of weavers using horsehair has declined.
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A polychrme basket with coyote tracks and bugs. $220. The butterfly baskets were intended as earrings. As a set the price is $65. Individually they are $40 each. The polychrome rattlesnake is $125.
Left to right: $65. $30, $25 and $45. the last one was woven by Pearl Mendez.
A great rattlesnake and pelican basket, by Linda Thomas. 3 5/8 inch wide. Why pelicans? Because the great summer rain stomrs rush in form the Pacific coats and it is not at all unusal for seabirds to ve psiuhed along with them.$600 Linda also wove the rattlesnake basket surrounded by coyote tracks. 2.25 inches across and $350. Rachel Enos, a begining weaver, made this swirl baskwet, 3.5 inches across and