Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts 4ʺW × 4ʺD × 7

4ʺW × 4ʺD × 7

5" long x 2" deep x 3

Wichita Art Museum

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

Turtle Shaped Coushatta Pine Needle Hanging Effigy Basket host gifts 4ʺW × 4ʺD × 7This 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