Pima baskets

Original description from (boldface preserved): ---- Pima baskets (The North American Indian; v.02);CREATOR:Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.;SUMMARY:Description by Edward S. Curtis: The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahatika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa basketry is of somewhat superior workmanship. The four-armed cross, a form of the swastika, appears as the central feature in the decoration of a majority of the Piman and Maricopa baskets of to-day, and while the true signification here is not known with certainty, it is not impossible that it was designed originally to represent the winds of the four cardinal directions. Less than a generation ago the swastika was employed by the Pima to decorate their shields, and as a brand for their horses.;NOTES:1 photogravure: brown ink; 31 x 44 cm.:Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1907.:Original source: The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai portfolio; plate no. 41:Seattle: E.S. Curtis, 1908.;SUBJECTS:Pima In

Date

1907

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

image

Original size

5,120 × 3,718 pixels

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