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Apache Polychrome
Basket
(#FCB28)
This splendid, polychrome basket is
12 inches high and probably was made around 1920. Most Apache baskets
were made by
the women of the San Carlos and White Mountain bands, but the jicarilla,
Mescalero, and Chiricahua Apaches also did basketry.
The Lipans, the most Plains-oriented of all the Apaches, apparently did
not. While Plains riverine tribes such as the Mandans made
burden baskets and the like, of the nomadic Plains tribes, only the
Cheyennes did basketry.
Illustrated in
Spirits
in the Art, by James A. Hanson, pg-207
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