In recent years, Native American basketry has aroused the interest and admiration of individuals, from the scholar to the collector. It is a complex subject and offers an opportunity to study through time the various changes which transpired in its function, form and manufacture. Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy , by Frank W. Porter III, is the first major study of the subject since 1904, and presents a collection of essays written by those intimately familiar with the basket makers and basketry of North America. ...
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In recent years, Native American basketry has aroused the interest and admiration of individuals, from the scholar to the collector. It is a complex subject and offers an opportunity to study through time the various changes which transpired in its function, form and manufacture. Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy , by Frank W. Porter III, is the first major study of the subject since 1904, and presents a collection of essays written by those intimately familiar with the basket makers and basketry of North America. Illustrated with approximately 80 black-and-white photographs--many of which are historical records of basket makers and their baskets--Native American Basketry uses archaeological, ethnographic, historical and contemporary information in discussing the changes in native basketry from prehistoric times to the present. In spite of the wide range of habitats, as well as the social and cultural diversity of the basket-making tribes, it is surprising to discover the similar ways the basket makers adapted basketry after prolonged contact with nonIndian peoples. The book is especially well-suited not only for the scholar of American Indian art history, but cultural history as well.
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VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear, pages are very clean and clear. ) Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering and design; xii, 350 pp, bw illustrations. Contents: Micmac Indian basketry / Joleen Gordon--Many motives: change in northeastern native basket making / Ann McMullen--Basketry of the Middle Atlantic and Southeast / Frank W. Porter III--Plains Indian basketry / Mary Jane Schneider--Basketry of the northwestern plateaus / G. Lynette Miller--Washoe basketweaving / Marvin Cohodas--Southwestern Indian basketry / Clara Lee Tanner--Weaver's talk, the language of baskets and the meaning of aesthetic judgments: the Patwin of Central California / Bruce Bernstein--Changes in Cahuilla coiled basketry / Joanne M. Mack--Hupa, Karok and Yurok basketry / Linda L. Eisenhart--Continuity and change in the basketry of western Washington / Carolyn J. Marr--Regional and personal style in Northwest Coast basketry / Andrea Laforet.; (Cont) Tlingit basketry, 1750-1950 / Ronald L. Weber--Objects of knowledge: the communicative aspect of Baleen baskets / Molly Lee--The influence of Attu weavers on Aleut basketry / Raymond L. Hudson.
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