Antique Papago Bowl Basket

Mid 20th Century

3.375" H x 9.75"D 

Hand Coiled with a Golden Tan Field and a Dark Brown Four Turtle Shell Motif Design

In Very Good Condition

Antique Papago bowl baskets are traditional coiled baskets made by the Papago people (now known as the Tohono O’odham or “Desert People”), indigenous to the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. 

These baskets are prized for their craftsmanship, cultural significance, and connection to the desert environment. They were historically utilitarian (for gathering food, storage, parching grains, or ceremonial uses like holding saguaro wine) but evolved into highly collectible art forms.