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American Indian Basketry
Paperback
Series: Dover Crafts: Weaving & Dyeing
Native American HistoryBasketsWeaving & Spinning
Publisher Price: $29.95
ISBN13: 9780486257778
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Feb 29 2012
Pages: 800
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.
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.
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