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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 134997, member: 45"]I should also point out, however, that there is a vast range in quality of items like this produced for sale, and high quality usually demands the highest value. Even when she was still making her baskets, they were probably the most expensive Indian baskets up to that time. One sold during her lifetime for roughly the equivalent of a new house. Not really in the category of an inexpensive souvenir that the average tourist would pick up. But still produced solely for sale. </p><p><br /></p><p>Similar record-price items made for the tourist or collector market would include some pieces of pueblo pottery made by Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso, and some early Navajo weavings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 134997, member: 45"]I should also point out, however, that there is a vast range in quality of items like this produced for sale, and high quality usually demands the highest value. Even when she was still making her baskets, they were probably the most expensive Indian baskets up to that time. One sold during her lifetime for roughly the equivalent of a new house. Not really in the category of an inexpensive souvenir that the average tourist would pick up. But still produced solely for sale. Similar record-price items made for the tourist or collector market would include some pieces of pueblo pottery made by Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso, and some early Navajo weavings.[/QUOTE]
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