Author: Porter, Frank W.
Title: The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy
Description: New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering and design; xii, 350 pp, bw illustrations. Contents: Micmac Indian basketry / Joleen Gordon -- Many motives : change in northeastern native basket making / Ann McMullen -- Basketry of the Middle Atlantic and Southeast / Frank W. Porter III -- Plains Indian basketry / Mary Jane Schneider -- Basketry of the northwestern plateaus / G. Lynette Miller -- Washoe basketweaving / Marvin Cohodas -- Southwestern Indian basketry / Clara Lee Tanner -- Weaver's talk, the language of baskets and the meaning of aesthetic judgments : the Patwin of Central California / Bruce Bernstein -- Changes in Cahuilla coiled basketry / Joanne M. Mack -- Hupa, Karok and Yurok basketry / Linda L. Eisenhart -- Continuity and change in the basketry of western Washington / Carolyn J. Marr -- Regional and personal style in Northwest Coast basketry / Andrea Laforet.; (Cont) Tlingit basketry, 1750-1950 / Ronald L. Weber -- Objects of knowledge : the communicative aspect of Baleen baskets / Molly Lee -- The influence of Attu weavers on Aleut basketry / Raymond L. Hudson. VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear, pages are very clean and clear.) .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; Indian Baskets; North American Indians ; ; General Reference - American Decorative Arts


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