8 Piece Native American Tohono O'odham Basket Set including Plate w/ Stand D Bey

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8 Piece Native American Tohono O'odham Nation Basket Set including Plate with Wood Stand, D Bey
This set is in great condition, with only minor wear due to handling and storage.
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Up for auction here is a great set of miniature Native American handiwork baskets. This set was purchased in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is attributed to D Bey of the Tohono O'odham Nation. This set includes the largest piece at 2" x 1 1/2" which is a covered basket, along with 6 other baskets ranging from 1 1/2" x 1" down to 1/2", as well as 1 plate that measures 1 1/4" across, and this plate has a neat little wooden stand.
The Tohono O’odham people also referred to as the Papago, are a Native American tribe of the Sonoran Desert who primarily live in Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means “Desert People.” When the Spanish came upon them, they called them Papago, but the people themselves have rejected this name and officially changed it to Tohono O’odham in the 1980s.
They are thought to be descendants of the prehistoric Hohokam Culture. They share linguistic and cultural roots with the closely related Akimel O’odham or Pima people, whose lands lie just south of present-day Phoenix, along the lower Gila River.
Though the Tohono O’odham never signed a treaty with the Federal Government, they were assigned to a reservation that incorporated a portion of their original Sonoran desert lands. Most of the people live on the more the 2.7 million acre reservation that lies in Pima, Pinal, and Maricopa Counties. With a population of more than 24,000 people, the reservation is the third-largest Indian reservation area in the United States, after the Navajo Nation and the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.
Today, some of the people continue to farm but most have turned more to raising cattle as the major source of income. Over the years, the Papago tribe has had little involvement with white settlers, a tradition that continues today, allow them to preserve many of their aboriginal traits. Their language is still alive today.
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