Annie creates the typical vegetal baskets as well as the miniature horsehair pieces. She prefers to use hair from the tail of the Arabian breed - it tends to be long and fine. The Tohono O'odham Indian weavers, (previously known as the Papago tribe) have received wide recognition for their fine miniature weavings. Annie has won many ribbons at the prestigious annual Indian market in Santa Fe, including Best of Class. Annie has also won top awards at the Heard Museum Indian Fair, including Best of Show. She learned from her maternal relatives and she made her first baskets in her early teens. She then abandoned the craft until she was married and had children. Annie says, "It's not a young girl's art. (Then) you can't sit down and work for 5 or 10 hours at a stretch; you don't have the patience. Our young girls learn the basic technique, and then they come back to it after they mature. I have a niece; she did her first basket when she was six. She's nine now and she doesn't have the patience for it. But maybe when she gets older she will come back to it."