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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4557353, member: 8267&quot;]I considered bushwhacker/Taghkanic baskets, which have that distinctive pushed up base. But the rim treatment is quite different. The Taghkanic baskets have thicker rims, with reinforcing hoops both inside and outside the staves, and crisscross lashing. Michelle&#039;s basket has only a single hoop on the inside, and a single diagonal lashing.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/taghkanic-baskets-folk-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/taghkanic-baskets-folk-art/" rel="nofollow">https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/taghkanic-baskets-folk-art/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have also found some references to the hexagonal weave being used by some Native American basket makers (Seneca &amp; Mohawk), comparing it to the weave used when making snowshoes. In a 1941 publication by Marjorie Lismer, <u>Seneca Splint Basketry</u>, she notes that only a few of the older basket makers still knew how to do the hexagonal weave.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is the possibility that the main basket and the hexagonal weave inserts are a marriage, made by different weavers. It would be interesting to see closeups of where the side pockets are attached, to see how well they are incorporated.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, my best guess would be that Michelle&#039;s basket was made in the northeast, somewhere between New York and Maine, probably by a basket maker of European descent, but perhaps with influence from neighboring Native American traditions, dating to the late 19th - early 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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