Author: Powers, Steven
Title: North American Burl Treen: Colonial and Native American
Description: Brooklyn, NY, Scott Powers Antiques, 2005. Hardcover. A navy casebound book with the title in silver lettering across the front cover and down the spine. There is a glossy full-color pictorial dust jacket with the title printed in white down a gray spine. The free and pasted end pages are a heavy textured brown paper. Pages: (6), 7-205, (2). Profusely illustrated with color images. Contents are as follows: Introduction -- American colonial burl bowls and service wear -- The Patten Family maple burl sugar bowl -- The covered burl bowl -- The burl mortar -- Assorted burl treen -- Burl effigy bowls of the Woodlands Indians -- Native American burl bowls -- A group of related burl articles : three bowls, one ladle, and one scoop -- Native American burl effigy ladles, burl paddles, and scoops -- Atlantic white cedar burl of the Abenaki -- Other Native American burl articles : two burl ball clubs, Native American burl manitous -- Every object index. VG+/VG+ .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; Treen ; ; Kitchens and Household Furnishings - American


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