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Hopi basketry

Hopi basketry

Figure 1. Late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century coiled plaques (left) and wicker work trays (right) from the McClung Museum collections. The “spider web” design (upper right) invokes Spider Woman, who in myth, taught the Hopis to weave and also to spin rain-bearing clouds for a bountiful harvest.