Horsehair baskets among the Tohono O’odham may have been made 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 polychrome basket with coyote tracks and bugs. $220. The butterfly baskets were intended as earrings. SOLD. 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 stoms rush in from the Pacific coast so it is not at all unusual for seabirds to be pushed along with them. $600 Linda also wove the rattlesnake basket surrounded by coyote tracks. 2.25 inches across and $350. Rachel Enos, a beginning weaver, made this swirl basket, 3.5 inches across and SOLD.