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American Indian Basketry

Release on 19041904 by Otis Tufton Mason
American Indian Basketry

Author: Otis Tufton Mason

Publisher: Courier Corporation

ISBN: 9780486257778

Category: Crafts & Hobbies

Page: 528

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The origins of basketry are lost in the mists of prehistory, but making baskets is certainly one of the oldest and most nearly universal crafts of mankind. In the Americas, basket artifacts found in caves in Utah have been dated at 7000 B.C., while twined baskets said to be at least 5,000 years old have been uncovered in Peru. In the American Southwest, an entire Indian culture (ca. 100–700 A.D.) is known as "Basket Maker" because of the distinctive baskets it produced. This exhaustive survey (two volumes in one) of American Indian basketry, perhaps the finest book ever published on the subject, documents basketmaking throughout the Americas — in Eastern North America, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, Oregon, California and the Interior Basin, as well as Mexico, Central and South America. Spanning a wide range of indigenous cultures (Aleutian, Tlinkit, Shoshonean, Athapascam, etc.), the detailed, carefully researched discussions in this book offer a wealth of information about woven and coiled basketry, watertight basketry, materials, basketmaking techniques and preparation, ornamentation and symbolism, as well as the uses of baskets as receptacles, in preparing and serving food, for gleaning and milling, in mortuary customs, in religion and social life, in trapping, carrying water, and in many other areas of Indian life. An interesting and informative chapter on collectors and collections and the preservation of baskets, followed by a helpful biography, rounds out the book. In addition, the author, once Curator of Ethnology at the U.S. National Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution), enhanced this encyclopedic study with over 450 excellent photographs and illustrations. For collectors, preservationists, anthropologists, students of crafts and culture, modern basketmakers, this is an indispensable reference — a massively rich source of information about baskets, the peoples who made them, how they were made, and their role in native American life and culture.
Crafts & Hobbies
American Indian Basketry
Language: en
Pages: 528

American Indian Basketry

Authors: Otis Tufton Mason
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 1904 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

The origins of basketry are lost in the mists of prehistory, but making baskets is certainly one of the oldest and most nearly universal crafts of mankind. In the Americas, basket artifacts found in caves in Utah have been dated at 7000 B.C., while twined baskets said to be at
Indian Baskets of Central California
Language: en
Pages: 176

Indian Baskets of Central California

Authors: Ralph C. Shanks
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Indian Baskets of California a

This unique book provides a complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras. Baskets of the Pomo, Ohlone (Costanoan), Coast Miwok,
Southern California Luiseño Indian Baskets
Language: en
Pages:

Southern California Luiseño Indian Baskets

Authors: Justin Farmer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-01 - Publisher:

Luiseño Indians are indigenous to the Southern California coastal plains of northern San Diego and western Riverside counties, where they are recognized by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs as Mission Indians. They are also recognized by Indians and Non-Indians alike as weavers of some of the finest baskets, perhaps
Contemporary California Indian Basketry
Language: en
Pages: 646

Contemporary California Indian Basketry

Authors: Bev Ortiz
Categories: Indian baskets
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

Baskets have been woven for at least 10,000 years in the area now known as the western United States. Originally created by California Indians as utilitarian objects for everyday family use, by the late 1800s baskets had become a commodity that provided much-needed income. Collector interest in baskets resulted in
Southern California Luiseno Indian Baskets
Language: en
Pages: 95

Southern California Luiseno Indian Baskets

Authors: Justin Farmer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02 - Publisher: Heyday Books

An introduction to common basketry techniques that deepens our appreciation of California Indian baskets as art objects

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