Large Antique PIMA Basket 13 x 10 3/4" for Sale

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Large Antique PIMA Basket 13 x 10 3/4" For Sale

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Large Antique PIMA Basket 13 x 10 3/4":
$199.00

Beautiful Antique Pima Basket

Oh, if this basket could talk. From our personal collection, this beautiful basket has had professional restoration restoration done sometime in its history. It's quite possibly from a museum from the quality of the repairs. This is an OLD basket.

It measures approximately 13 x 10 3/4"

From NPSHistory

The Pima-Papago and the Apacheare two rather strikingly different groups, both of which were intimatelyconcerned with the founding and history of Tumacacori Mission and the othermissions of Arizona and northern Sonora. The first group furnished the motivefor the founding of the missions; the second was a principal cause of theirultimate decay. The two groups differ radically in speech, much in temperament,to a considerable degree in culture, and somewhat in racial composition.

The Pima, with which areprobably to be classed the now extinct Sobaipuri, were and are an almostcompletely sedentary tribe, subsisting largely on the products of agricultureand the abundant mesquite bean, small game, and, strange as it may seem in thisdesert country, fish. This last item, fish, was probably of major importanceonly to the Gila Pima.

The Papago may be described asa sedentary tribe also, but with seasonal migrations. They relied to a largerextent upon wild products than the Pima. In the rainy season they made seasonalmigrations from their permanent villages, by waterholes and springs along thebase of the mountains, to sow and harvest crops planted in the lowlands which,except for the rainy season, were without water. Culturally the Papago may bedescribed as Pima whose culture has been limited and somewhat altered by theirmore arid desert environment. Historically, perhaps, this characterizationshould be reversed and we should describe the Pima as Papago whose culture hadbeen enriched by moving into a more favorable environment.

The Apache formerly consistedof a large number of groups or bands scattered over an enormous extent ofterritory. We are concerned only with the western Apache, whose major divisionswill be indicated later. Before white contacts, these Apache were agriculturalin a desultory fashion, but depended largely on game and wild vegetableproducts for their food. They were primarily nomadic in their habits, rangingover a more or less defined area, only settling down now and then in favorablespots to raise a crop of corn and other products. With the beginnings of whitesettlement they became increasingly nomadic and began to depend more and moreon the results of raids on the cattle of their Mexican and Indian neighbors.Agriculture became correspondingly less important. In all probability thewestern Apache were more closely allied to the Navaho than they were to theeastern Apache. Apache traditions sometimes mention the vicinity of Flagstaffas their former home. This is now Navaho country.

The history of the two tribesis also quite different. Pima traditions are that they originated in the regionthey now occupy and there is nothing in their culture to indicate that theyhave not been in or near their present habitat for a very long time. It hasbeen suggested that they are descendents of the builders of Casa Grande andsimilar type ruins, but for this there is no definite proof. Viewedconservatively, this opinion has many points against it. It is equally probablethey were a people of lower culture co-existing with the builders of CasaGrande in the same general area. From the latter the ancestors of the Pima mayhave acquired a few cultural traits, occupying their lands after the collapseof the culture, and perhaps even absorbing the population remnants. There seemsno definite proof for either of these theories.

The Apache, on the other hand,are unquestionably newcomers to the area. Their linguistic affiliations are farto the north and it is doubtful if they have been anywhere in the Southwest formuch more than five hundred years. Certainly their contacts with the Pima andPapago are not that ancient. Most probably they reached their present westerlyposition not more than three or possibly four hundred years ago.

Pima and Papago culture was inpart marginal to the Pueblo civilizations. Its major features, however,strongly resemble the culture of the sedentary Yuman tribes of the Gila andlower Colorado rivers. In a larger sense these lowland cultures in general appearto be partially derived from marginal contacts with cultural influences whichcame up the west coast of Mexico and the Sierra Madre to the Pueblos. ThePueblos modified and elaborated upon these influences, while the lowlandpeoples apparently simplified them. A good deal of similarity exists, moreover,between the lowland Arizona peoples and the lowland tribes of southern Sonora,the Yaqui and Mayo. (Spier, 1933, 41; Ioffer. 1928, comparative sections; Beals,1932, distribution maps and discussion, Ioffer. Yaqui-Mayo ms.)

Apache culture has evidently adifferent history. They appear to have come into the region as wanderingnomadic hunters, learning the utilization of their new environment in largepart from other peoples in the area, becoming minor agriculturists, and takingover a little of the social organization and ceremonialism of the Pueblos.

The following detaileddiscussion of the two groups is divided into two parts. One is a generaldiscussion of each topic for which museum display is intended, including thedata needed for collecting and arranging materials, as well as some data whichit would be pertinent for the custodians to have in mind. At the conclusion ofeach major topic, brief but specific suggestions for the museum displays arepresented.

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