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Message:: [QUOTE="Taupou, post: 2598321, member: 45"]Komokwa is right, both the Utes and the Paiutes have been the source during most of the 20th century for nearly all the "Navajo wedding baskets" on the market.  They were purchased by the Navajo for their ceremonies, as well as by tourists and collectors.  (And more recently, "Navajo wedding baskets" made in Pakistan have replaced those!) Despite all the claims on line, there are very few actual Navajo-made baskets. It wasn't until the latter part of the 1980s/1990s, when Mary Holiday Black began to defy the cultural restrictions and started a revival of basket making in the Douglas Mesa area of Utah, that a few more women started making baskets for the market.  Most of them are related to Mary. The baskets are made of sumac, not yucca, and are colorful and expensive works of art, nearly always accompanied by a photo of the maker.  They look nothing like Tohono O'odham baskets, nor do they look anything like the wide range of so-called "Navajo" baskets one often encounters on line. Thank you, Komokwa, for the documented references, and for helping get the word out![/QUOTE]