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Message:: [QUOTE="Taupou, post: 39637, member: 45"]If anyone is seriously interested in Nootka/Makah baskets, the essential reference is Volume 1, Number 4 of American Indian Basketry Magazine published in the 1980's by John Gogol (quoted in some of the above posts.)  It is devoted to "The Twined Basketry of Western Washington and Vancouver Island," and includes not only Gogol's article, but also an interview with Mabel Taylor, including detailed photos and closeups of her in the process of weaving one of these baskets. The issues are out of print, but copies generally can be purchased from sources on line, and most major libraries should have copies.  It's always better to read the actual reference cited, rather than depending on the relay of information through several sources, which sometimes get important points changed a little somewhere along the line. One thing Gogol does talk about is the close association between the tribes.  He mentions, for example, that although bear grass doesn't grow on Vancouver Island, "even today some Nootka and Nitinat weavers buy or trade for bear grass or dyes at Neah Bay, and one can see Nootka baskets being sold by Makah weavers there." Which pretty much means, unless you actually know the name and tribal affiliation of the weaver of a particular basket, it may not be possible to label it one or the other.  Which is why they are often referred to simply as "Nootka/Makah."[/QUOTE]