Evelyn Seletstewa pushing down on the wefts of a wicker fruit basket

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Selected photographs from Helga Teiwes' series documenting Hopi basket weaving.
Description: 

Evelyn Seletstewa of Mishongnovi works on a fruit basket and is pushing down on the wefts. The bottom of the basket can be seen along with the white cotton tying the two bigger branches together which helps to shape the basket. The qahavi (willow) warps are also visible. Scanned on a Nikon Supercool Scan 9000 at 4000 DPI. Photoshop was used to clean up dust specks via cloning and reformatted from TIFF to JPEG. Digitizing Technician: Michael William Jenkins.

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Location Description: 

Hopi Tribe Reservation (Ariz.); Mishongnovi (Ariz.)