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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4056473, member: 55"]The baskets do come up fairly often on ebay, not so often for handbags; in the Native category (of course); and they are attractive, and often rather inexpensive; I've got a couple myself. </p><p>And although not originally a native craft, the Seminole and Coushatta people have been making them for more than 100 years; so if one has such a basket, bought from a tribal member, or with good provenance, of course it is considered "Native American."</p><p>It is just that looking at the style of the basket, one cannot confirm that it is native-made; and given the history of the craft, and the popularity among non-natives, there is no way to look at a particular basket and know whether or not it was native-made. Those facts preclude listing such a basket in the native category as native-made (unless one has that provenance); which doesn't prevent quite a few of them being listed there.</p><p>This is notably different than the situation with many kinds of Native American baskets, where the techniques are often very specific to the tribe, and have not been part of a non-native craft craze. One can reliable look at a Makah or Nu-Chah-Nulth basket and identify it as such, for example.</p><p>Not so with the Tenerife style, unfortunately. But it is still an interesting and rather complex technique, IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4056473, member: 55"]The baskets do come up fairly often on ebay, not so often for handbags; in the Native category (of course); and they are attractive, and often rather inexpensive; I've got a couple myself. And although not originally a native craft, the Seminole and Coushatta people have been making them for more than 100 years; so if one has such a basket, bought from a tribal member, or with good provenance, of course it is considered "Native American." It is just that looking at the style of the basket, one cannot confirm that it is native-made; and given the history of the craft, and the popularity among non-natives, there is no way to look at a particular basket and know whether or not it was native-made. Those facts preclude listing such a basket in the native category as native-made (unless one has that provenance); which doesn't prevent quite a few of them being listed there. This is notably different than the situation with many kinds of Native American baskets, where the techniques are often very specific to the tribe, and have not been part of a non-native craft craze. One can reliable look at a Makah or Nu-Chah-Nulth basket and identify it as such, for example. Not so with the Tenerife style, unfortunately. But it is still an interesting and rather complex technique, IMHO.[/QUOTE]
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