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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10254985, member: 8267&quot;]The materials look like pine needles stitched with raffia. It can be difficult to be sure about its origin, as coiling with pine needles and raffia was a style developed in the 20th century and is a craft that has been practiced by indigenous and non-indigenous weavers alike. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, some features of your basket are similar to baskets held in the National Museum of the American Indian that are identified as Coushatta (Koasati) - the basic shape, the use of the feather stitch on the bottom portion, and the X shaped stitches along the rim of the lid. But I have not seen examples of Coushatta pine needle baskets that use such long sections of solid stitching, or the dark (dyed?) needles. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a comparison from the NMAI -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513700[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_271756" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_271756" rel="nofollow">https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_271756</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And another from a dealer (whose price, I think, is overly optimistic) -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]513701[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://ciscosgallery.com/products/coushatta-pine-needle-basket-ah1171" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ciscosgallery.com/products/coushatta-pine-needle-basket-ah1171" rel="nofollow">https://ciscosgallery.com/products/coushatta-pine-needle-basket-ah1171</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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