Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk bold so that I'd see it

so that I'd see it morning and night

with a horizontal band of diamond shapes around the center

which have been sewn together with black thread

New York and printed by The New York Lithographing Co

Antique Pima or Papago Native Pictorial Basket with Figures and Elk bold so that I'd see itThis 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