Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk bold a terrific long neck

a terrific long neck

which I'd guess dates to the 1860s-1880s

New York and printed by The New York Lithographing Co

with a horizontal band of diamond shapes around the center

so that I'd see it morning and night

Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk bold a terrific long neckThis wonderful late 19th or very early 20th century basket I purchased from the estate of Elaine Bradbury Vercoe, a descendant (the great granddaughter, I believe) of Colorado pioneer William Chase Bradbury (1849 1925). Held in her estate were both thousands of original antique photographs taken by Bradbury on expeditions around the Western U. S during the late 19th and early 20th century, many featuring Native Americans (as well as cowboys), along