Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts Wichita Art Museum

Wichita Art Museum

Afganistan on men’s smocks

or simply in a grouping on a shelf or table to add a pop of color and moment of beauty

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

Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts Wichita Art MuseumThis 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