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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4345767, member: 8267&quot;]I found a similar basket on ebay, with the large needle bundles, and&nbsp; stitching material that appears the same:</p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/p-gAAOSw0mdhfctp/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/284528090381?hash=item423f321d0d:g:p-gAAOSw0mdhfctp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/284528090381?hash=item423f321d0d:g:p-gAAOSw0mdhfctp" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/284528090381?hash=item423f321d0d:g:p-gAAOSw0mdhfctp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The seller said &quot;All provenance available upon request&quot;. So I sent him a message, and he replied promptly:</p><p>&quot;This particular basket was made in 1972, by a registered member of a conjoined tribe: Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Central Texas. The Alabama tribe was originally part of the Cherokee nation, until the late 18th century, when they were forced out of their land by the British and had to migrate west into Texas between the Sabine and Neches rivers. The tribe then created a treaty with both the American people and subsequently melded into the Coushatta nation. The basket weaver that created the basket is a 71 year old woman named, Peggy Battis. The basket was given to a family member as a gift in 1977, and then it was given to me in 2010.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not have identified such baskets as Native American, so it was very interesting to find an apparently well documented example.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a couple of other similar ones, also on ebay, but without provenance:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n8EAAOSwvddfwVvc/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/185133707005?hash=item2b1ad42efd:g:n8EAAOSwvddfwVvc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/185133707005?hash=item2b1ad42efd:g:n8EAAOSwvddfwVvc" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/185133707005?hash=item2b1ad42efd:g:n8EAAOSwvddfwVvc</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7c8AAOSwiGJfZ73g/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/164392973244?hash=item264695b3bc:g:7c8AAOSwiGJfZ73g" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/164392973244?hash=item264695b3bc:g:7c8AAOSwiGJfZ73g" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/164392973244?hash=item264695b3bc:g:7c8AAOSwiGJfZ73g</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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