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It arrived in record time - that is a beautiful scarf! Thanks so much!!
Komokwa pretty much nailed it in his earlier post...but to expand, or clarify: the Makah as well as the Nu-Cha-Nulth (Nootka) peoples at one time...
No offense meant to anyone; I started posting on ebay forums years ago, at a time when I was very discouraged by the number of fakes on ebay...and...
I'm thinking most likely African, not Native American....but others have more knowledge than I....we'll see what they have to say.
There is a guy in Anacortes Washington who runs, or used to run, a business hand-setting type and printing on antique presses; also sometimes had...
Possibly studio pottery, by almost anyone, with residue of a price sticker on the bottom; but yes, a better photo of the bottom would be helpful.
I don't have the answers, but I certainly love that model boat!
I'm still thinking some kind of stone. The pores in the closeup of the bottom just don't look like either bone or ivory to me. Just an opinion,...
Sweet! Thanks! I'll send address.
I get an African feeling; there is a light-colored soapstone often used for carvings in Kenya.
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