The Victorio Burden Basket is a Mescalero or Western Apache-style burden basket [chunk:122
The Victorio Burden Basket is a Mescalero or Western Apache-style burden basket [1] collected at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, in Spring 1882 [1]. Hopkins from the wife of Apache chief Victorio [1] and reportedly used by Victorio himself [1], it was loaned to the Heard Museum on September 8, 1977, and returned September 23, 1977 [1]. In 2007, Leland Michael Darrow, Tribal Historian for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, questioned the original Chiricahua attribution, suggesting the basket is more consistent with Mescalero or Western Apache manufacture [1].
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- Basketry ↗ · detailsBasketry From card: "Burden basket bought by Mr. L.K. Hopkins in the Spring of 1882 at Fort Wingate from the ... [wife] of the celebrated Apache chief Victorio. A number of old men, women and children were brought into the fort at the time…