Western Apache Food Storage Basket
1880–1900
willow, devil's claw
23.25 x 18 (diameter)
Illinois State Museum Condell Collection
808 827
This Western Apache food-storage basket demonstrates, with its closed neck configuration, the similarity in container shapes in cultures separated widely by geography and time. Its similarity to Greek amphorae is striking. The abstract pattern of interwoven diamond forms recalls the shape of netting that was in earlier times used to carry such baskets.