Sealed in a plastic case. Been trying to get it open but it's been glued shut. Love the green tag in front describing the contents.
A typical Tenerife basket, from the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa, an autonomous community of Spain. Kits are widely available for making the baskets, so it actually could have been made anywhere.
That's what I thought too. I'm guessing this is from the same auctioneer who passes cheap Chinese and Indonesian stuff off as Native American?
The date is all wrong before getting any further. That piece looks brand new; an legitimate antique would have signs of age on it somehow.
I was thinking about the other baskets vitry bought at auction, but you are absolutely right of course. Unfortunately auctions and selling venues are full of misrepresentation, also deliberate misrepresentation. And it seems the term 'Native American' is misused even more than others.
