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received this basket from my grandmother estate. She claims to have recieved it from a hopi medicine man in the 1950s but said he could have gotten it as a gift from Africa. It beautiful and huge. The Hopi have a sacred Butterfly ceremony and if you look at the basket from a distance you can see the outline of a beautiful butterfly. They sacrifice a young girl,during this ceremony to appease thier God. The ceremony happens once,every 4 years and is the most sacred of all. The two horned efegies are a clan of the Hopi and look represented here. Also the men with walking sticks could be Hopi planting with thier stick. The animals that appear to have trunks I think are sacrificed and the trunk looking things are really the blood letting of the said sacrifice. Well that's what I have found so far.
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