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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11361323, member: 8267&quot;]Your basket is made of raffia, a fiber derived from several species of palm native to Africa and Madagascar. This material and style of coiling and stitching became popular among hobbyist basketmakers in the late 19th-early 20th century. In his 1904 book &quot;How to Make Indian and Other Baskets&quot;, George Wharton James describes the use of raffia for coiling. He specifically mentions the work of the Pocumtuck Society of Deerfield, Massachusetts, which was a group of Euro-American women, saying their work had inspired other &quot;groups of village workers in basketry in different localities&quot;. Raffia work was also adopted as a suitable craft for children, such as students at the Teacher&#039;s College in New York.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]541774[/ATTACH]</p><p>George Wharton James. How to Make Indian and Other Baskets</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://artscrafts-deerfield.org/artsapp/person.do?shortName=raffia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artscrafts-deerfield.org/artsapp/person.do?shortName=raffia" rel="nofollow">http://artscrafts-deerfield.org/artsapp/person.do?shortName=raffia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>These coiled raffia baskets have frequently been mistaken for Native American work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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