Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts There are a few small

There are a few small pen marks on surface and a bit of wear to inter lacquer lip

From the back and underside

The weaving is attached to metal bars on top and bottom

Wichita Art Museum

5" long x 2" deep x 3

Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts There are a few smallThis wonderful little turtle shaped Coushatta hanging effigy basket is made of coiled Louisiana native pine needles sewn together with raffia. (The Coushatta are a matrilineal society native to Southwest Louisiana recognized as a sovereign nation in 1973; today most of its thousand or so members live in Elton, LA, the seat of the tribal government.) I believe this particular basket may have been made by Marjorie Abbey Battise, a member of a family of