Jicarilla Women
Plate 25 · Portfolio 1 · 1904
“They exhibit fair skill in basketry, this being their chief industry and source of barter with neighboring tribes; indeed it was through this custom of making ‘little baskets’ that the Spaniards applied to them the name by which they are popularly known.”
— Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, Volume 1Jicarilla Apache · Volume 1
The Jicarilla are an Apache people of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Curtis documented them in Volume 1 of The North American Indian — the first volume of the work — alongside the Navaho and the other Apache bands.
Their name comes from the Spanish jicarilla, “little basket,” after the coiled basketry that was their principal craft and chief article of trade. The Pueblos of the Rio Grande obtained many of their baskets from the Jicarilla in exchange for corn. Like the Navaho, they made little pottery, and that only for utilitarian use.
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