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Message:: [QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 288690, member: 55"]Truer words were never spoken (except perhaps for Taupou's advice about that great book).I often find it very sad to see an ebay listing for a basket, or mask, or totempole, that the seller is so proud of, which has been in his collection for years......but which I instantly recognize as an imported fake, or just a misattribution."Bought years ago from a lady on an Indian reservation in the Southwest." (But it is a Chinese basket)"Bought years ago in Alaska." (But it is an Indonesian import)"Belonged to my Grandmother who loved Native American items." (But she never visited an import shop, or received a gift from someone who knew of her interests?) And a PS about what makes that book so great: there are many guides to Native items, and nearly all of them have many pages of pictures of native pots, carvings, baskets.....but most of them have not a word about the many items frequently mistaken for native, or about the outright fakes.That makes life very hard for the beginner, who has no way to distinguish the real from those that seem similar to a beginner's eyes.A book that actually includes items frequently mistaken for Native American is a real treasure.[/QUOTE]