The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry

The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Author: Brian Bibby
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Presents over sixty examples of beautiful California Indian basketry, with commentary upon each basket by native basketweavers, scholars, and California Indian artists in other media.

After the First Full Moon in April

After the First Full Moon in April
Author: Josephine Grant Peters
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1315435284

Josephine Peters, a revered northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural knowledge on personal and tribal history, gathering ethics and preparations, then offers a catalogue of the uses and doses of over 160 plants.

Circle of Poison

Circle of Poison
Author: David Weir
Publisher: Food First Books
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1981
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780935028096

Every minute, someone in the Third World becomes a victim of pesticide poisoning. Circle of Poison documents the international marketing of restricted pesticides that leave a globe-circling trail of sickness and death. But the circle's victims are not silent. Around the world, people are fighting back.

Tradition and Innovation

Tradition and Innovation
Author: Craig D. Bates
Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1990
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

This comprehensive study focuses on the history and basketry of the Miwok and Paiute inhabitants of the area in and around Yosemite. National Park. Illustrated with hundreds of historic images as well as photographs from the Yosemite Museum collection, many published for the first time, it details the dramatic changes that took place in the lives and weaving of Yosemite's native people from prehistoric times to the present.

Precious Cargo

Precious Cargo
Author: Brian Bibby
Publisher: Heyday
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Marin Museum of the American Indian.

California Indians

California Indians
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2011-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1432949462

This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the California region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.

Pomo Cradle Baskets

Pomo Cradle Baskets
Author: Jeanine Pfeiffer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999753514

Redwood Valley Pomo master weaver Corine Pearce describes the history, wild-crafting, distinct styles and contemporary use of traditional cradle baskets.

Native California

Native California
Author: Dolan H. Eargle, Jr.
Publisher: Trees Company Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0937401110

This lavishly illustrated book is the only complete and contemporary introductory guide to all the Native peoples in California. Arranged by geographical area and by language groups, Native California includes reservations, rancherias, federally recognized tribes without lands, unrecognized tribes and peoples with out-of-state origins. History, maps, interviews, overviews, essays, informational appendices. copyright 2008