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    • Close coiled basket (95.62.11)

    • Close coiled basket (95.62.11)

    • Unknown

    • Akimel O'odham

    • Small, shallow, tightly woven close coiled basket, in tray form. Composite polychrome decoration executed in Martynia sp. and light reddish brown dyed plant material. Base has a six pointed flower with a solid center. Flower surrounded by...
    • B-161

    • B-161

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Very large Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl, deep, ovoid with an everted rim. Surface has a thin coating or wash which lightens the surface color. Exterior is polished and smooth but not even. Complex vertically banded design has hooked triangles,...
    • Learning Packet: Clothing and Costume

    • Learning Packet: Clothing and Costume

    • Sonoran Heritage and Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library)

    • Clothing and dress; Costume -- Arizona.

    • "Clothing and Costume: Learning Packet for Group and Individual Study" is a learning packet which looks back at the history of clothing and costumes in the Sonoran Desert region and explores how clothing evolved from necessary protection from the...
    • 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 Highways. August, 1958

    • Arizona Highways. August, 1958

    • Arizona Highways Commission

    • Arizona; Arizona Highways Magazine; Arizona Department of Transportation

    • CONTENTS

      Indians of Arizona
      Photographs by Joseph Miller; Cartography by George M. Avey 3

      Indians of Arizona
      By Clara Lee Tanner 4

      Navajo Sand Painting
      By Elizabeth-Ellen Long 33

      The Hubbell...
    • 1954 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1954 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce

    • Flagstaff--History; Powwows--Arizona--Flagstaff; Powwows--Pictorial works; Festivals--Arizona--Flagstaff; Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Pictorial works;...

    • Program of events for the annual Flagstaff All-Indian Pow Wow, 1954
    • 1963 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1963 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce

    • Flagstaff--History; Powwows--Arizona--Flagstaff; Powwows--Pictorial works; Festivals--Arizona--Flagstaff; Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Pictorial works;...

    • Program of events for the annual Flagstaff All-Indian Pow Wow, 1963
    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series II

    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series II

    • Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965

    • Ceramics; Indian pottery; Indians of North America; Antiquities

    • (27,801kb pdf) Pottery from the Little Colorado River area is analyzed with the Chaco Canyon and Upper Gila River areas to define a possible new Little Colorado culture.
    • Archaeological survey of Texas

    • Archaeological survey of Texas

    • Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977

    • Archaeological surveying--Texas; Antiquities--Texas; Indians of North America--Texas; Isleta Indians--Texas; Jicarilla Indians--Texas; Mescalero Indians--Texas; Apache Indians--Texas; Jumano Indians--Texas; Comanche Indians--Texas; Kiowa...

    • An archaeological survey of Texas whose purpose is to "define the cultures of Texas and their boundaries; to determine the relations which may once have existed between the tribes of Texas and those of adjoining sections; and to seek traces of the...
    • Close coiled basket (95.64.1)

    • Close coiled basket (95.64.1)

    • Unknown

    • Tohono O'odham

    • Small, shallow, close coiled basketry tray. Solid Martynia circle at base with four elongated triangles with attached frets extending from it. Similar motifs are pendant from the rim and attach to the fret of the lower triangles. Fairly even...
    • Close coiled basket (PGM:72/BA04)

    • Close coiled basket (PGM:72/BA04)

    • Unknown

    • Akimel O'odham

    • Large, deep, close coiled basketry bowl, with steep, flared walls. Decorated with a repeated design of four sets of two zigzag lines that run from rim to base, interspersed with groups of small "coyote track" motifs. One of the lines in each set...
    • Close coiled basketry tray (95.62.10)

    • Close coiled basketry tray (95.62.10)

    • Unknown

    • Akimel O'odham

    • Medium sized, tightly woven close coiled basket, in tray form, flat base has a slight central dimple. Charring near rim on exterior and interior surfaces. Asymmetrical design on walls and base executed in Martynia sp. Small solid circle on the...
    • Close coiled basketry plaque (95.62.12)

    • Close coiled basketry plaque (95.62.12)

    • Unknown

    • Hopi

    • Large, close coiled basket, in plaque form, decorated. At the center is a small solid circle surrounded by a repeated wedge shaped motif containing a negative cruciform element. Four wedge shaped motifs touch the circle. Two quadrupeds and two...
    • Shell pendant

    • Shell pendant

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Small frog or toad effigy pendant, manufactured from a juvenile Glycymeris shell. The Hohokam culture is noted for its shell jewelry; they used shell from the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast. Frogs or toads are very common design motifs...
    • B-109

    • B-109

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Medium sized Maricopa Black-on-Red jar, with two handles, small mouth, short neck. There is a scalloped flange at the shoulder and a flat base. The vessel form is relatively symmetrical. The exterior surface is uneven, but highly polished with...
    • B-115

    • B-115

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Small polychrome jar. Originally had three handles, one of the handles has been broken off and is missing; handles slipped with cream color on exterior. There is an undulating appliqued element around the circumference of the lower body. The...
    • B-027

    • B-027

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Medium sized deep Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl with a nearly hemispherical body, slightly incurved rim. Both exterior and interior surfaces are uneven in finish and color, not highly polished, and decorated with off-black paint. The interior has a...
    • B-033

    • B-033

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Small globular Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl, roughly symmetrical, with an incurved rim. The bowl is pinkish gray both inside and outside; the interior surface is uneven, not highly polished, and has scraping marks. The base is flat with a deep...

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