Basket made of small coiled split yucca olla. It is made water tight by pitch covering inside and out. Also has white horse hair lugs.

Yucca was not used in the making of this basket. The basket was most likely made from sumac or willow. A water basket made from yucca is not common. It's purpose was for domestic tasks. The red coloring comes from a stain that was then covered in pine pitch. The crude coil construction is indicative of the Jicarilla.

Tags: red stain, resin, water jug, basket, pine, pitch, horsehair, lugs
People: Jicarilla Apache
Places: New Mexico
Purpose: domestic use

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology