A Contemporary Tohono O'odham (Papago) pictorial basketry tray
Circa 1970s, a large example, worked with three concentric rows of beetles centered by a row of stepped triangles.
height 3in, diameter 22 1/4in
Footnotes:
Provenance
Sold: Sotheby's, New York, NY, Indian Art Including Property From The Collection Of Frieda And Milton Rosenthal, 20 May, 2009, lot 92

Illustrated
American Indian Art Magazine, Summer 1997, Volume 22, No. 3, Ashton Gallery ad, p. 12
Manley, Ray, Collecting Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts, 1979, Collings, Jerrold L., 'Baskets', p. 19

Literature
For a nearly identical example, see a similarly sized tray woven by Gladys Antone of Chuichu, AZ, in Whiteford, Andrew Hunter, 'Southwestern Indian Baskets: Their History and their Makers,' 1988, School of American Research, Hong Kong, p. 138, fig. 94, '...even in the 1980s a small group of Papago women living in the village of Chuichu on the northern edge of the reservation were still making fine baskets, traditional in construction and materials, but often original in their decoration. Complex squashblossom patterns are quite common, and designs with rattlesnakes, butterflies, and insects are sometimes produced.'

Good condition overall with some very minor dust accumulation commensurate with age.