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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 10406603, member: 55&quot;]Just my two cents, in part a summary of what has gone before:</p><p>Because the use of pine needles, and the techniques used were introduced to some native American tribes from elsewhere; and because the style has been widely used by non-natives and hobbyists and others throughout the world, we can only say two things about any pine-needle basket:</p><p>1) If it has provenance, like a signature, or is otherwise proven to have been made by a native, then by definition it is native-made.</p><p>2) Lacking that proof, no pine-needle basket can be identified by technique as native-made.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen pine-needle baskets which superficially looked like non-native &quot;art&quot; works....but in fact happened to be made by a native person.&nbsp; The majority of pine-needle baskets simply cannot be identified by appearance alone as definitively either native or non-native.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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