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Basketry Photographs by Jerry Jacka

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Featured in the July 1975 Issue of Arizona Highways

The "kiaha", or burden basket, was made and used by the Pima and Papago. It consists of a lacelike net twining and is used with a tump-line, usually a woven fabric, attached to the corners of the pack and worn across the forehead.
The "kiaha", or burden basket, was made and used by the Pima and Papago. It consists of a lacelike net twining and is used with a tump-line, usually a woven fabric, attached to the corners of the pack and worn across the forehead.
BY: John P. Wilson Jr.

From the John P. Wilson Jr. collection.

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The variety of tribal textures and techniques top to bottom, left to right, include: BK-70 Klickitat, BK-71 shallow Zuni wicker basket of sumac, BK-72 Micmac of birchbark with porcupine quills, BK-73 San Juan wicker weave of willow twigs, BK-74 split stitch flat coil plaque of unknown origin, BK-75 Ottawa of sweet grass on black ash splint warp, BK-76 Cherokee wicker basket of wild honeysuckle root, BK-77 Iroquois wicker of oak splints and braided grass, BK-78 Chippewa birchbark box with bleached porcupine quills and sweet grass, BK-79 Chiti-nacha large double weave twilled, BK-80 Ottawa birch-bark container edged with sweet grass and bearing a porcupine quill design, BK-81 Choctaw plaited four under, four over split cane in natural color.