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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 127558, member: 45&quot;]The blue and tan one, and the similar tan one with the same construction are both Mexican, from the Toluca Valley, identified by the wrapped stitches separating the coils.</p><p><br /></p><p>The basket in the second photo is Native American Indian.&nbsp; It&#039;s a coiled yucca basket, Papago (Tohono O&#039;odham), from southern Arizona.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tiny red one is not Native American, it is what is commonly called an &quot;Arts and Crafts Movement&quot; basket, made by non-Indian weavers.&nbsp; The materials and construction (raffia, and that particular stitch joining the coils...where a stitch wraps over two coils, joining them, leaving a tiny space between) is not a combination of material and technique used by Native American basket makers.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably the only one of the four that was <u>not</u> made for the tourist market.&nbsp; It was most likely made as a crafts item, possibly from a kit, just for the maker&#039;s own use.&nbsp; These were seldom sold commercially.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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