Although there may be a specific tribal association for each of these baskets, it is hard to determine. It appears to us that most of the peoples of the Central Highlands area of Vietnam, i.e., the provinces of Quang Nam, Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dac Lac use or have used baskets very similar to these. I use the word “tribe” to discuss them although the Vietnamese refer to them as “ethnic minorities”, of which there are 54 in the entire country. Among those we know use these baskets in the Central Highlands are the Gia Rai, the Ko Tu and the E De. However, it is hard to say that any one of these baskets is uniquely associated with any one of these ethnic minorities. David bought them all from dealers in Hanoi, over the period of time they were available there. Typically the dealers in Hanoi would buy them from itinerant “pickers” whose profession is to travel from village to village offering to buy whatever people have in their houses they are willing to sell, if they need some money. For this reason there may still be thousands of these baskets still in use in the villages but their owners have just not determined that the need for money superseded the utility of the baskets. We don’t know. We do know that the pickers have not tended to keep specific information about the origin of each basket so the dealers in Hanoi can only guess where they came from and how old they might be.