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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 13144031, member: 8267&quot;]My gut feeling is that it is African, from somewhere in the south eastern region (Zambia to South Africa), but I am having trouble finding well identified examples with this combination of features. Here is my thinking so far - the overall form&nbsp; (flaring cone on a small base) is very typical of baskets from this region, as is the design of simple rings of color. Both single rod coiling, and the style of stitching, alternating over two rows, also occur in the area. But I am having trouble finding the combination of single rod foundation stitched with a soft leaf or grass material as appears in your basket. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Barotse/Lozi in Zambia are known for their sturdy baskets made of makenge root (Combretum zeyheri). These use a single rod foundation, but the coils are stitched with the same root split into strands. The material is hard and glossy, with little pits that are left from the subsidiary hair roots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some Barotse bowls/plates -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]559992[/ATTACH] </p><p>from: <i>African Basketry: Grassroots Art from Southern Africa</i>, by Anthony Cunningham and M. Elizabeth Terry. pg 55</p><p><br /></p><p>A detail of a Barotse basket, showing the appearance of the makenge root:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]559993[/ATTACH] </p><p>from: <i>Art of the Basket: Traditional Basketry from Around the World. </i>by Bryan Sentance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple other types that show some similarities, but the examples I have found are not illustrated with enough detail to be certain about their structures -</p><p><br /></p><p>A Gembe-Tonga basket, also from Zambia, made of reeds (Phragmites australis) and leaf fibers (Hyphaene petersiana):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]560001[/ATTACH] </p><p>from: <i>African Basketry: Grassroots Art from Southern Africa</i>, by Anthony Cunningham and M. Elizabeth Terry. pg 75</p><p><br /></p><p>And some Tsonga baskets from the area near Giyani in South Africa, made using a vine (Cocculus hirsutus) as the coil foundation. The stitching material is not identified. The rim treatment is clearly different from your basket:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]560018[/ATTACH]</p><p>from: <i>African Basketry: Grassroots Art from Southern Africa</i>, by Anthony Cunningham and M. Elizabeth Terry. pg 32</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]560016[/ATTACH] </p><p>from: <i>African Basketry: Grassroots Art from Southern Africa</i>, by Anthony Cunningham and M. Elizabeth Terry. pg 164[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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