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American Indian Basketry [Two - Paperback, by Mason Otis Tufton - Very Good
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Item specifics
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- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780486257778
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486257770
ISBN-13
9780486257778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
456482
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Indian Basketry
Number of Pages
800 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baskets, Native American
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Crafts & Hobbies, History
Book Series
Dover Crafts: Weaving and Dyeing Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
32.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
88-014977
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
746.41/2/08997
Synopsis
Exhaustive, standard survey of baskets and their makers, from Alaska to South America. Describes uses -- in defense and war, dress and adornment, fine art, preparing and serving food, gleaning and milling, house-building and furniture, their symbolism in mortuary customs and much more. 460 illustrations., Exhaustive, standard survey of baskets and their makers, Alaska to South America. Coiled and woven baskets, materials, techniques, uses in cooking, agriculture, war, mortuary customs, much more. 460 illus., 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.
LC Classification Number
E98.B3M44
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