Most complete survey of Indian basket-making describes uses of baskets, their role in legend and ceremony, origins of forms and designs, materials and colors, weaves and stitches, plus full instructions for those who want to make their own. Southwest, Pacific coast. Basic work for anthropologist, collector, draftsman. 355 illustrations.
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A few hundred years ago our own ancestors were "aborigines,"-they wore skins for clothes; wove basket; lived in wicker and skin huts or in caves; ate nuts, herbs, acorns, roots and depended upon the fortunes of the chase for their meats, just as the Amerind of the present and past generations are doing and have done. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kah hoom, pinion gum, basket throwers, antelope altar, twined weaving, basketry designs, middle mesa, conical basket, simple weave, imitative faculty, coiled basket, basket bowl, second basket, one square inch, basket makers, carrying basket Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern California, Thompson Indians, Mission Indians, National Museum, San Jacinto, George Wharton James, Professor Holmes, United States, American Anthropologist, British Columbia, Tule River, Agua Caliente, Northern California, San Francisco, Sierra Nevada, Walter Fewkes, Bat Woman, Bureau of Ethnology, Cascade Mountains, Cataract Canyon, Fort Tejon, New York, Stephen Powers, Washington Matthews, Wind People New!
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A few hundred years ago our own ancestors were "aborigines,"-they wore skins for clothes; wove basket; lived in wicker and skin huts or in caves; ate nuts, herbs, acorns, roots and depended upon the fortunes of the chase for their meats, just as the Amerind of the present and past generations are doing and have done. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kah hoom, pinion gum, basket throwers, antelope altar, twined weaving, basketry designs, middle mesa, conical basket, simple weave, imitative faculty, coiled basket, basket bowl, second basket, one square inch, basket makers, carrying basket Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern California, Thompson Indians, Mission Indians, National Museum, San Jacinto, George Wharton James, Professor Holmes, United States, American Anthropologist, British Columbia, Tule River, Agua Caliente, Northern California, San Francisco, Sierra Nevada, Walter Fewkes, Bat Woman, Bureau of Ethnology, Cascade Mountains, Cataract Canyon, Fort Tejon, New York, Stephen Powers, Washington Matthews, Wind People New!
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- Thompson Indians of British Columbia by James A. Teit on page 147, and page 232
- A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson on page 232
- Navaho Legends by Washington Matthews on page 232
- Tribes of California by Stephen Powers on page 232
- New Mexico (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 72
- The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy (Contributions to the Study of Anthropology) by Frank W. Porter on 10 pages
- Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 by Susan Bernardin on page 155, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds by Ruth B. Phillips on page 222, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Navajo Ceremonial Baskets: Sacred Symbols Sacred Space by Georgianna Kennedy Simpson on page 18, page 24, and Back Matter
- The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts by John M. Vlach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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