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Miniature Papago Basket of Grass and Devil’s Claw Fibers - C3353.01
Category: Baskets | Posted by | Thu, Sep 22nd 2016, 5:33pm
The Tohono O'odham are indigenous Native Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Tohono O'odham means "Desert People." The federally recognized tribe is known as the Tohono O'odham Nation.
The Tohono O'odham have rejected the former name Papago, used by Europeans after being adopted by Spanish from hearing other Piman bands call them this. The Pima were competitors and referred to the people as Ba:bawĭkoʼa, meaning "eating tepary beans." That word was understood as papago by the Spanish and adopted by later English speakers.