Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket whaling (See the third photo for

(See the third photo for view of the 3 component parts of each earring)

and thereafter religious themes and motifs were a consistent element in his work

Absolutely exquisite

PA in 1933

are absolutely charming

Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket whaling (See the third photo forThis 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