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The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy
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The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy Hardcover - 1990

by Porter, Frank W

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New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Hardcover. 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.). 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.
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  • Title The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy
  • Author Porter, Frank W
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition annotated editio
  • Condition Used - VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear, pages
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwood Press, New York
  • Date 1990
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 184606
  • ISBN 9780313267161 / 0313267162
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.46 x 1.31 in (23.98 x 16.41 x 3.33 cm)
  • Reading level 1310
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Antiquities, United States - Antiquities
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-26008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 746

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First line

Although Native American basketry had been observed, described, and collected from the time of earliest contact, it was not until the late nineteenth century that baskets were studied in a systematic and scholarly fashion.

About the author

FRANK W. PORTER III is the Director of the Chelsea House Foundation for American Studies. He was previously the Director of the American Indian Research and Resource Institute in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His other works include Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States (Greenwood Press, 1986) and Native American Basketry: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1988).

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