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Call Number	CHS-X2900
Title	Basket
Summary	A (Native American Apache) coiled basket used as a storage jar; made from willow, rod foundation, Devil's claw and light brown and black coloring. It's decorated with checkerboard, triangle, zigzag, band and line designs.
Date	[between 1870 and 1900]
Notes	Accession ID: E.1820; History Colorado.; Curatorial note supplied by History Colorado: "The Apache tribes of the Southwest were skilled in both coiling and twining techniques (Basket Weaver of Arizona, 72). Water and storage jars were coiled, using mainly willow. Burden baskets were even more skillfully twined with willow twigs."; Object ID: E.1820.1; Scanned image from loaned transparency including Object ID.; Title supplied.; R7200029006
Physical Description	1 basket : willow
Is Part Of	History Colorado, Slide Collection
Subject	Apache baskets--1870-1900. Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1900. Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1900. Baskets--1870-1900.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	Imaged.
Format-Medium	Historical object Photograph
Identifier	E.1820; E.1820.1
Filename	20002900.TIF

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