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Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art, Phoenix, Arizona, 1977. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Fourth Printing. Very good condition. Minor edge and corner wear. Light soiling to rear cover. All intact. No writing or marking..

Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum, 1962. Paperback. Very Good. Pictorial paper covers Very good. 4to. 40 pp. 17 plates some in color.

Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art, 1967. Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2" X 11. 40 Pages. Staple Bound magazine size. Used book with minor wear to covers. No other defects noted. The art of basketry in the American Southwest is one of the oldest crafts known on the continent. By 500 A.D. the people known to archaeologists as the Anasazi were making fine coiled basketry with elaborate designs. Archaeological care and thoroughness have preserved an excellent record of this art form representing nearly 1500 years of prehistoric evidence of man's universal urge to beautify the things he makes, an esthetic drive that continues its uninterrupted course into contemporary time. Today the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, descendants of the Anasazi, continue this basketry tradition in the form of beautiful coiled plaques of yucca fiber and a wicker-weave type made of wild current and rabbit brush. For those interested in acculturation studies this… Read More