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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 29592, member: 45&quot;]I&#039;d agree, anyone who expects to start collecting or buying baskets for resale, should first buy a couple books.&nbsp; And <u>Art of the Basket</u> would be on the top of my list.</p><p><br /></p><p>While Turnbaugh and Turnbaugh&#039;s book is widely used, and good in many respects, you need to be aware that it does contain some errors (which makes it easy to see what reference eBay sellers are using, when one of those baskets ends up misidentified in their listings!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t seen any recent reprints, so perhaps the mistakes have been corrected, but there are a lot of copies out there that show a western Oregon Grand Ronde basket incorrectly identified as &quot;Washo bowl, Great Basin&quot; (page 52); a Gullah sweetgrass basket labeled &quot;Labrador Eskimo&quot; (page 25); and a Romblon Island basket from the Philippines misidentified as &quot;Alaskan Eskimo...attributed to the Alaskan Eskimo living along the Yukon River,&quot; (page 25).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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