Help with Kachinas

"Antique Eskimo Inuit basket"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301866119301?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

(Lombok tribe, Indonesia)

 

"Vintage Alaskan Inuit"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301901110202?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

"Antique Eskimo Inuit Basket"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Esk...BU50yU1lerBhUiHfC%2FY%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

this one sold for $87.

 

I guess one could also mention the trick of attaching a bone carving to a Chinese basket......I've even seen those with the official Alaskan igloo sticker.
This one's going to sell for at least $280.
"Antique Eskimo Tlingit Basket"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291710925443?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

"Alaskan Smoked Grass Bowl with Bone Carvings"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281961683945?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

Grrrr.

 

notice the orca on the chinese basket looks like it's sitting on a slab of walrus ivory.
or that may be stone......hard to tell.
What is clear though is that it's meant to rob buyers of their hard earned money, by selling them a fake item.

 

I bought one very similar to this for $ 34 at the Bay , downtown....and it still had it's made in philipines sticker on it.

 

That's what I thought also. The ones I've seen with the stickers - which of course can be faked - made it appear that the "official" Alaskan crafts board would issue stickers to anyone who attached an Alaskan-looking carving to a purchased import basket.
Buy an Indonesian bone carving, glue it to a Chinese basket.....instant Eskimo basket.

 

Sorry for the thread-hijack.....I'm going to blame it on Komo and Taupou.

 

Ahhh....here's the puppy....!

If I was of the mind I could sell this as Northwest Coast Indian ....allllllllll day long.....Just look at the wonderful carved finial.....

That's a raven or oystercatcher ....or sumptin ...fer sure !!!

at least to folks who DON'T KNOW NO BETTER !!@!!!

 

WANTED.....
Someone to take the blame for everything I do wrong around here !!

......................

 

Okay, I'm guilty! But yes, this Chinese basket with the Indonesian bone carving stuck on top was the one that put me over the edge.

At least the Indonesian baskets don't start out as manufactured fakes, it's just when sellers try to pass them off as Indian, Native American, or whatever that the problems start...and quickly compound when other sellers use the internet to "research" their own items.

But assembling two unrelated Chinese and Indonesian items to make a fake Eskimo basket, and the same seller having more than one of such innovative fakes for sale...that's pretty blatant.

But, I guess, so was aiding and abetting the hijacking of this thread, for which I apologize. Such fakes shouldn't even be on the same thread with authentic Hopi kachina dolls. (Although I do feel better! Maybe I should post on the Rants and Raves thread next time.)

 

Indeed.

It is really mostly my fault. I admit it. Komo helped.
I did like the kachinas!

 

Sometimes things just need to be said. Or posted. I'm glad we have a forum like this where that can happen!

Right now, I'm going off to work on my taxes....

 

Dear all, just reading this thread, my friends have just purchased kachinas with a view to repatriation. But how to tell if they are fake?