Basket

Dateca. 1920

DimensionsOverall: 14 × 17 1/2 in. (35.6 × 44.5 cm)

Object numberN0002.2022(13)

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Thomas Branchick.

Photograph by Richard Walker.

Label TextThe art of basketry is highly treasured in Apache culture. This basket is a burden basket; traditionally formed in a cone shape with a flat, rounded bottom. The tin cones circling the basket form a decorative element, but their jingling noise has been said to scare off snakes. Apache women were almost always the weavers of burden baskets, which were used to carry firewood, roots, berries, and tools.

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