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    • Ashes used to prevent stickiness

    • Ashes used to prevent stickiness

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • When clay becomes too wet to paddle properly, ashes are rubbed onto the paddle to prevent its sticking to the clay.
    • Pima Plaza1950s.

    • Pima Plaza1950s.

    • Unknown

    • Scottsdale (Ariz.) - History; Scottsdale Historical Society - History; Pima Plaza;

    • When Pima Plaza opened on First Avenue east of Scottsdale road in the early 1950s, it incorporated many innovative shopping designs. It was one of the first places in Scottsdale that was designed to accommodate shoppers arriving in cars, with ample...
    • Quadruped Picotgraph

    • Quadruped Picotgraph

    • Unknown

    • Pictograph; Rock art--Arizona

    • When rock art is painted onto a surface it is referred to as a pictograph. This is probably a stylized representation of a bighorn sheep. The element is done in reddish brown paint and is found on the ceiling of the low overhang in the previous...
    • Pictograph Overhang

    • Pictograph Overhang

    • Unknown

    • Pictograph; Rock art--Arizona

    • When rock art is painted onto a surface it is referred to as a pictograph. This low ceiling overhang contains many pictographs. There were also a partial block wall and bedrock mortars found at the site. The culture that created these is unknown....
    • Save The Little Red School House Benefit Dance 1970s

    • Save The Little Red School House Benefit Dance 1970s

    • Unknown

    • Scottsdale (Ariz.) - History; Scottsdale Historical Society - History; Little Red Schoolhouse (Scottsdale, Ariz.);

    • When the 1909-vintage Little Red Schoolhouse was threatened with destruction to make way for west Civic Center Mall development in the late 1960s, the newly-formed Scottsdale Historical Society, along with the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, began...
    • Return to larger pot

    • Return to larger pot

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • While base of smaller pot rests, Rupert continues on base of larger pot.
    • Closed Coil Basket with Fraying Edges

    • Closed Coil Basket with Fraying Edges

    • Unknown

    • Hopi baskets

    • Wicker bowl. Hopi. Round shaped plaited wicker tray made of sumac twigs with the edges wrapped in yucca. Natural tan and red colors. 4.25 inches deep. 15.25 inches in diameter.
    • Unusable Willow Shoots

    • Unusable Willow Shoots

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Baskets; Basketry; Baskets Arizona; Willow; Native American arts; Native American culture; San Carlos Indian Reservation, AZ

    • Willow shoots growing in the sandy soil next to San Carlos Wash. Generally, this willow is not used for basketry- it breaks too easily.
    • Coiled Wine Bowl with Repeating Design

    • Coiled Wine Bowl with Repeating Design

    • Unknown

    • Tohono O'odham baskets

    • Wine bowl. Tohono O'odham. See "Gathering Hamanh - Papago" in the Arizona Memory Project collection "Images from the Edward Curtis Collection." This basket was used to hold saguaro wine. Geometric design. Tan and black colors. 7 inches deep. ...
    • Closed Coil Bowl with Animal Design

    • Closed Coil Bowl with Animal Design

    • Unknown

    • Apache baskets

    • Winnowing basket. Southern Paiute. Round basket made of sumac. Decorated with vegetal dye in geometric and animal motifs. Photographed by Curtis in "From the Threshing Floor - San Juan." 7.5 inches deep. 20.375 inches in diameter.
    • Arizona Central Hotel

    • Arizona Central Hotel

    • Forrest, Earle R. (Earle Robert), 1883-1969

    • Historic hotels; Winslow (Ariz.)

    • Winslow, AZ. An old hotel at Winslow after a fire about 2 weeks before this was taken. [Forrest:] I was told it was built about 1882. This would be shortly after the railroad came through. At the time of the fire it was occupied by Indians. A sign...
    • Wire baskets, called wainom hua, made by Albert Alvarez

    • Wire baskets, called wainom hua, made by Albert Alvarez

    • Helga Teiwes, Photographer

    • Tohono O'odham baskets; Wire craft; Metal-work; Handicraft

    • Wire baskets, called wainom hua, are distinctive craft objects of the Tohono O'odham. In this sequence of seven images, Albert Alvarez demonstrates how to make a wire basket. In the past, wire baskets were used as functional items to store food....
    • The Alumni Pavilion & World Business Building Bldg

    • The Alumni Pavilion & World Business Building Bldg

    • Unknown

    • Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management

    • With the construction of the pavilion in 1987 (foreground) and the World Business Building in 1992 (background), the campus took on an entirely new look and expansion to the south and east.
    • Egg Beads

    • Egg Beads

    • Berber Tribe

    • Personal Artifact; Adornment

    • Woman in southern Morocco wear these enameled silver egg shaped beads called " Taguemout", which symbolize fertility.
    • Women on House at work, Oraibi

    • Women on House at work, Oraibi

    • Runke, Walter and Laura

    • Hopi Indians--Dwellings--Arizona--Oraibi; Hopi women; Basket making

    • Women on House at work, Oraibi; two women on roof making baskets

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