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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 139346, member: 55&quot;]Just as an aside, I have grown disenchanted with attributions based on what stuff is found with, or where the collector is known to have traveled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as an example, I&#039;ve found that a person who likes NW Coast Native masks and has a lot of them may also have bought a few fakes along the way, or may have bought a Japanese mask just because he liked it.&nbsp; Or he may have known some of the items were non-native, and liked them anyway - but his heirs often don&#039;t know that.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; People who traveled a lot in the American SW may also have visited Australia once....</p><p>This just doesn&#039;t speak to me of any type of Native American item that I&#039;ve seen.</p><p>I could imagine the wires being straightened into a long lyre-shaped tail though.&nbsp; But really, if one likes it and finds it cute, that is great, regardless of where it comes from.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wish I could shed some light on the origin, but I really can&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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