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A Key Into the Language Of Woodsplint Baskets by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handman Edited - 1987

by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handman Edited

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A Key Into the Language Of Woodsplint Baskets by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handman Edited - 1987

A Key Into the Language Of Woodsplint Baskets

by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handman Edited

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Fine First Edition Large Trade Paperback NOT a library book. Clean Pages Color and B/W Photos and drawings of Algonquin New England baskets and the designs and their sacred teachings hidden in plain view. There are insights by Mohegan Gladys Tantaquidgeon who talks to the little people. This is very rare published by the Native museum in Connecticut and is filled with baskets and lore and tools and faces lucky to be seen. Fine collectible condition. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans

  • Bookseller Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books US (US)
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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher American Indian Archaeological Institute
  • Place of Publication Connecticut
  • Date Published 1987
  • Size 4to
  • Keywords splint baskets mohegan little people algonquin baskets pequot baskets micmac mahican pequot abenacki connecticut indians shamans fairies splint baskets sweet grass
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A Key into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets. Edited by Ann McMullen and Russell G. Handsman. With essays by: Joan Lester, Tom McFeat, Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh and William A. Turnbaugh, Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Jayne G. Fawcett, Ann McMullen, Trudie Lamb Richmond, Russell G. Handsman, Mark P. Leone.

by McMullen, Ann and Russell G. Handsman; Editors

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Washington, Connecticut: American Indian Archaeological Institute, 1987. Quarto, softbound (stiff, full-color and black & white photo. illus. slick beige wrappers), 196 pp. Fine (As New). Contents: Preface (Russell G. Handsman); Acknowledgments; Lenders; An Introduction to Woodsplint Basketry and Its Interpretation (Russell G. Handsman and Ann McMullen); One Way of Looking; Introductory Note; We Didn’t Make Fancy Baskets Until We Were Discovered: Fancy-Basket Making in Maine, Joan Lester; Space and Work in Maliseet Basket-Making, Tom McFeat; A Conflict of Interpretations; Introductory Note; Weaving into the Woods: Tradition and Response in Southern New England Splint Basketry, Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh and William A. Turnbaugh; Symbolic Motifs on Painted Baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot, Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Jayne G. Fawcett; Looking for People in Woodsplint Basketry Decoration, Ann McMullen; Other Ways of Talking; Introductory Note; Spirituality and Survivial in Schaghticoke Basket-Making,… Read More
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