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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 775679, member: 45&quot;]These are African, palm leaf baskets, from Botswana.</p><p><br /></p><p>A great reference, that I always recommend, is <u>Art of the Basket, Traditional Basketry from Around the World</u>, by Bryan Sentance.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lacking that, my only advice is to pay prices based on the assumption an unknown basket is Chinese, African, Pakistani, or Indonesian (rather than Native American.)&nbsp; 99% of the time that&#039;s what they are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Designs can be copied by any competent basket maker, and should never be the only basis for identifying the source.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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