Tarahumara Indian Rawhide Bound Pottery Vessel, Ca, 1970's #988 Sold Ca 1970'2 Mustard beads are most often

Mustard beads are most often used in center of special Royal" necklaces or in belts and bibs

Learning to make jewelry "was the popular thing then

Barbara Martinez Povi  Cactus Flower

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin

and not Navajo as noted by Thelma in her original note

Tarahumara Indian Rawhide Bound Pottery Vessel, Ca, 1970's #988 Sold Ca 1970'2 Mustard beads are most oftenTarahumara Indian Rawhide Bound Pottery Vessel, Ca, 1970's #989 Description: Tarahumara Indian Rawhide Bound Pottery Vessel, Ca, 1970's Condition: Excellent for its age. Dimensions: 18" x 18" and about 45 pounds. Some background on the Tarahumara follows: "The Tarahumara Indians live in the remote regions of the Sierra Madre Mountains in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. They are northern Mexicos largest indigenous Indian tribes, and are a nomadic