Title: Desert Indian Woman
Description: Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.
Subjects: Indians of north america, folklore, Indians of north america, social life and customs, Tohono O'odham Indians, Biography, Folklore, Social life and customs