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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 2621142, member: 45&quot;]It isn&#039;t Native American.&nbsp; No Native American tribe uses this particular combination of weaving material, technique, and form.</p><p><br /></p><p>The basket appears to be bundle-coiled, with palm fiber stitching.&nbsp; The way the top coil continues to become a rather free-flowing handle, indicates that this was made primarily as a decorative item, for sale.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t a traditional form associated with any basket-making culture.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does, however, relate somewhat to the way many Gullah baskets are made.&nbsp; The Gullah people are African-American descendants of the early slave trade in South Carolina, Georgia, and the Sea Islands.&nbsp; They trace their basket-making tradition back to West and Central Africa.&nbsp; Although the materials are local (sweetgrass, palmetto leaves, and black rush) and they use a spaced stitching joining the coils that shows the underlying coil foundation, some of the forms do resemble this basket.</p><p><br /></p><p>All things seem to point to a West African source.&nbsp; It may have been made by a creative West African craftsperson, not necessarily following a traditional style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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