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American Indian Basketry by Otis Tufton Mason (2012, Trade Paperback)

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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 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.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486257770

ISBN-139780486257778

eBay Product ID (ePID)456482

Product Key Features

Book TitleAmerican Indian Basketry

Number of Pages800 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBaskets, Native American

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreCrafts & Hobbies, History

AuthorOtis Tufton Mason

Book SeriesDover Crafts: Weaving and Dyeing Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight32.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-014977

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal746.41/2/08997

SynopsisExhaustive, 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 NumberE98.B3M44