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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 13144507, member: 16407&quot;]Well, thanks first and foremost. I so appreciate your time and expertise.</p><p><br /></p><p>After spending some time trying to search the different types you mention here, I&#039;m afraid none sound or look just right.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Barotse baskets, as below, don&#039;t quite look like the right stitching material. I think you&#039;re right that the material on my mine looks (and feels) more like a grass or quick-growing, flexible fiber, and less like a hardened more woody root.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]560030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gembe-Tonga also seems like not quite the right materials...</p><p><br /></p><p>Your last idea, Tsonga baskets, seem most promising, but are a bit limited in examples online. So I can&#039;t be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>AI keeps wanting to tell me it&#039;s Makenge:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]560031[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>... but those design patterns in raised &#039;relief&#039; are not on my basket.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe mine is 1000 years old, was almost perfectly preserved in a climate-controlled desert cave, avoiding sunlight, moisture and temperature extremes, and actually originates in a heretofore unknown culture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure, though, how I would&#039;ve found it in a thrift store in Portland, Oregon, in that case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I keep at it. Thanks again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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