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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 4949502, member: 45&quot;]A basket collector probably wouldn&#039;t be interested in either one.&nbsp; These are Tenerife-style baskets, named for the island in the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain, where they were first made.&nbsp; Since then, the style has shown up all over the world, from the Marshall Islands to the Coushatta and Seminole tribes, to Mexico, and likely today, to China.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although frequently mistakenly identified as Native American Indian baskets, no tribe ever used pine needles or raffia until the practice was introduced to tribes in the South by missionaries.&nbsp; This was followed by &quot;how to&quot; books on basketry making.&nbsp; Today there are kits widely available, and instructions on line, on how to make them.&nbsp; Missionaries, craft workers, and just about anyone interested in making a basket, have spread the style all over the world.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first basket looks in rather poor shape, made with bundle-coiled twigs, with missing raffia stitches, and the&nbsp; glue.&nbsp; The second one is colorful, and better made, with raffia coils and stitching.&nbsp; It may be of interest as a decorative item.&nbsp; But there is really no way of telling who made them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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