Featured Baskets, Baskets and MORE baskets! Native American?

Sorry, these are the only pic's available! Local auction will have these lovely baskets for sale in a few weeks. I can't read the tags. Whatcha think?

 

The tags read …

1st photo
Arizona Indians.
Pima Indians.

2nd photo no tag.

3rd
Arizona Indians.
Navajo Wedding Basket.

4th
Arizona Indians.
White River or White Mountain Apache.
Usually all called White Mountain Apache.
This and Mescalero tribes were for Jeronomo (Geronimo) van? clan? war?

5th
Arizona Indians.
Jicirilla (Jicarilla) Apaches.
Old and quite rare.

6th, no tag

 

First two are Native American, probably Pima, or a nearby tribe, but the wear damage is going to affect the price.

Next one is a Navajo design, but the Navajo usually don't make them themselves, since the religious restrictions are so strict, that they usually get them from neighboring Utes (or more recently, from as import from Pakistan.) So it's a Navajo wedding basket design, but is either very old, when they still made them, or a copy. And may be an import.

The next one may be the best of the lot. It looks like an early one, with no damage shown.

The one with the handle damage is from Hooper Bay. I personally wouldn't buy it as is.

The last one may not be Native American.

 

Those are some nice, old baskets. Although it is always best to see details of their materials and construction, I would agree with the labels.
#1 - Pima - now known as Akhimel O'odham.
#2 - an early Papago - now known as Tohono O'odham.
#3 - A wedding basket, probably made for the Navajo by a Southern Paiute or Ute weaver. It shows all of the characteristics of a genuine wedding basket. (see https://www.antiquers.com/threads/n...g-basket-or-pakistan-copy.85959/#post-9844742)
#4 - White Mountain Apache
#5 - Jicarilla Apache
#6 - looks Native American, but I am not sure of the tribal affiliation.

 

you'll be hard pressed to get the 4th.... but go for the 1st and 2nd as well as the last one.
all good old baskets !

I'd suggest that the broken handle one is not Alaskan, and the braided twist rim shows the 2nd to be an older Pima .

 

I suggested Tohono O'odham/Papago for #2 based on the checkered weaving in the center, which is typical of their starts. However, if it is a later repair, then it could be either Tohono/Papago or Akimel/Pima. Early Papago baskets are very similar to Pima, the difference being the materials used, which I am not able to see well in this case.

 

I stand by #2 as being Pima....
classic whirling logs.... and rim treatment...

 

In his Southwestern Indian Baskets: Their History and Their Makers, Andrew Hunter Whiteford notes that "The traditional coiled baskets of the Papagos, sewn with willow and devil's claw splints, were so similar to Pima baskets that they are often difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish from them." Some additional excerpts -







Whiteford based his work on the documented collections held at the School of American Research at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as other museum collections, "examination of ethnological and historic documents, photographs and illustrations, and many discussions with basketmakers and basket enthusiasts".

I have found his book to be one of the best references on the details of construction and the materials used in SW baskets.

 

WOW! Thanks for the awesome information! The auction isn't until the 1st week of January. If I get any of them (AS IF I needed any more!) I'll post again.

 

Thanks to all the amazing members here who bring such knowledge, experience and scholarship to our discussions... This basket's for you!