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	"The World's Most Famous Basket." Famed basket in spotlight at Fenimore House Museum By OWEN S. GOOD Cooperstown News Bureau Baskets in the News Indian basket found in Olympic National Park is 2,900 years ... The Worlds Largest Basket? UC Berkely's Anthropology Musuem Gets $700,000 to preserve endangered collections,including 9,000 California Indian Baskets.