Navajo Pine Pitch Basket, Horse Hair Handles, 2nd Place Winner

Priced in Mexican Pesos.  Rare giant Native American Navajo pine pitch basket. It meassures 16” high with a 11” diameter. This is a beautiful handmade traditional Navajo basket that was obviously made by a master basket maker since it won 2nd Place in the OÓdham Tash Competiton in Casa Grande, AZ in 1985.
The handles are made of woven horse hair (mane).
This is what Wikipedia says about the OÓdham peoples:
 
The Tohono Oʼodham are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The federally recognized tribe is known in the United States as the Tohono Oʼodham Nation.
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation, or Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, is a major reservation located in southern Arizona, where it encompasses portions of three counties: Pima, Pinal, and Maricopa in the United States. It also extends into the Mexican state of Sonora.