Large Primitive Coushatta Basket Made of Long Leaf Pine Needles Nice Collectible

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Large Vintage Woven Pine Needle Seminole Basket Old estate find, I was told by the owner that this is basket made by the Coushatta of Elton Louisiana. It is made of woven bunches of long leaf pine needles. It has a round shape with thick coils creating an ovoid shape that narrows at the top and bottom. In very good vintage condition, I do not know the age. The basket measures 11" tall, about 16" across at the widest point, and 8" across the top opening. Nice vintage Woven Pine Needle Basket, Great collectible, great display piece. Basketry has been an important economic resource in the Coushatta community since the 19 th century. Baskets were sold and traded locally by individual weavers until 1965, when tribal weavers organized and established a crafts cooperative to market and sell their baskets. Although a few weavers maintain the tradition of split cane basketry, Coushatta weavers are renowned for their coiled, longleaf ( pinus palustris ) pinestraw basketry. This tradition seemingly evolved from an older Koasati tradition of coiled basketry in which various native grasses including wire grass, pahé , found in the pine forests of the upper Gulf Coast, were utilized. These older baskets were sewn with strips of the inner bark of the dogwood or mulberry trees. Although cane basketry predates most other basketry traditions in read more

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