A Photographic Guide to the Ethnographic North American Indian Basket Collection

A Photographic Guide to the Ethnographic North American Indian Basket Collection
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Cataloguing the North America Indian baskets accessioned at the Peabody Museum between 1990 and 2004, this volume includes all catalogue information, including collection date, description of the basic technology used, provenience, functions, materials and maker.

Woven from the Center

Woven from the Center
Author: Diane Dittemore
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2024
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0816552630

Woven from the Center presents breathtaking basketry from some of the greatest weavers in the Greater Southwest. Each sandal and mat fragment, each bowl and jar, every water bottle and whimsy is infused with layers of aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings. This book offers stunning photos and descriptions of woven works from Indigenous communities across the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico.

The Hall of the North American Indian

The Hall of the North American Indian
Author: Ian W. Brown
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In 1990, the Peabody Museum reopened its Hall of the North American Indian, which since the late nineteenth century has displayed the most signifcant objects from the museum's vast Native American collections. In stunning full-page color photographs by Hillel Burger, this catalog captures the extraordinary richness of the collections.

American Indian Baskets

American Indian Baskets
Author: William A. Turnbaugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764344046

Over 750 color photographs illustrate this long-awaited guide for collectors of vintage Native American basketry. Decades of basketry research inform the text, guiding basket lovers to a better understanding of these woven treasures. Clear images and concise descriptions, presented in an extended gallery showcasing hundreds of baskets, delineate specific tribal styles within Native North America's nine basketry regions: Southwest, Great Basin, California, Plateau, Northwest Coast, Arctic and Subarctic, Plains, Southeast, and Northeast. Unique to this book is an in-depth comparison of imported baskets being passed off as American Indian work. The cultural and historical background as well as the influence of the "Indian basket craze" are also examined. Valuable guidance on buying, selling, and caring for baskets includes a frank discussion of legal issues impacting basket collectors. Rounding out this essential reference are comprehensive regional bibliographies, Internet resource listings, and a directory of American museums exhibiting Native American baskets.

A Most Indispensable Art

A Most Indispensable Art
Author: James B. Petersen
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1996
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780870499159

This collection of essays chronicles the diversity and richness of one broad category of traditional material culture - fiber industries or textiles - among prehistoric and historic Native Americans in eastern North America. Such industries, which include basketry, fabrics, cordage, and netting, played an important role in the economic, social, and ceremonial life of indigenous cultures. However, because of the extreme age of the artifacts, their fragile nature, and unfavorable preservation conditions, knowledge of these industries has long been incomplete - resulting in a gap in scholarship that this volume does much to address.

Indian Baskets

Indian Baskets
Author: Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1986
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

Native American Basketry

Native American Basketry
Author: Frank Porter
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988-04-27
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This bibliography includes more than 1,100 entries from books, journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations concerning North American Indian basketry. More general cultural works with some information on basketry are also included, and the materials date from early ethnographic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to 1987. . . . The introduction offers a good overview of research in Native American basketry, and although the annotations vary greatly in thoroughness and length, they are generally useful. This unique, well-produced bibliography is recommended for collections supporting programs in anthropology, crafts, or Native American Studies. Choice Interest in Native American basketry dates from the late 1800s, when an enthusiastic public, together with curators, academic collectors, and archaeologists, first began to appreciate the value and uniqueness of these beautiful hand-crafted artifacts. This bibliography is the first comprehensive guide to publications on the subject. Organized by major cultural areas of North America, it offers annotated listings of books, journal articles, dissertations, theses, monographs, and selected newspaper articles published over the last 100 years. In his introductory essay, Porter discusses the history of Native American basket making and the findings and views of some of the anthropologists, archaeologists, and popular writers whose works contribute to our knowledge of the subject. The bibliography is divided into eleven sections, each dealing with a specific geographical/cultural area. Entries are cross-referenced, and a comprehensive index gives convenient access to authors, titles, and subjects.

The Art of Native American Basketry

The Art of Native American Basketry
Author: Frank Porter
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1990-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780313267161

In recent years, Native American basketry has aroused the interest and admiration of individuals, from the scholar to the collector. It is a complex subject and offers an opportunity to study through time the various changes which transpired in its function, form and manufacture. Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy, by Frank W. Porter III, is the first major study of the subject since 1904, and presents a collection of essays written by those intimately familiar with the basket makers and basketry of North America. Illustrated with approximately 80 black-and-white photographs--many of which are historical records of basket makers and their baskets--Native American Basketry uses archaeological, ethnographic, historical and contemporary information in discussing the changes in native basketry from prehistoric times to the present. In spite of the wide range of habitats, as well as the social and cultural diversity of the basket-making tribes, it is surprising to discover the similar ways the basket makers adapted basketry after prolonged contact with nonIndian peoples. The book is especially well-suited not only for the scholar of American Indian art history, but cultural history as well.