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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 4303259, member: 45&quot;]There is no Native American Indian connection with any of these items, other than the image of the &quot;kachina&quot; design, which is loosely based on a design intended to look like a Hopi kachina.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t, however, and is simply a decorator item.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As is the &quot;kachina table&quot; shown in the link. Unfortunately, the item shown isn&#039;t even an image of a kachina, but instead (despite the claim) is an interpretation of a Yei figure, from the Navajo culture.&nbsp; Yei and kachinas are unrelated holy figures in the Navajo and Hopi religions/cultures, respectively. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Navajo, Hopi, and Cherokee are totally unrelated tribes/cultures.&nbsp; They are no more related than the Chinese, Italians, and Scottish, if you want to put it in terms more familiar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only the Navajo wove &quot;chief blankets,&quot; and they in no way resembled this.&nbsp; Here is a good link to illustrate what each of the three phases of the style looked like:</p><p><a href="https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/19-century-navajo-weaving-asm/chiefs-style-blankets" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/19-century-navajo-weaving-asm/chiefs-style-blankets" rel="nofollow">https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/19-century-navajo-weaving-asm/chiefs-style-blankets</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The items are of decorative value only, with no connection to Native American art, and cannot legally be offered for sale as Native American Indian, under the terms of the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act" rel="nofollow">https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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