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Title: Indian Basket (Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh, William A. Turnbaugh ISBN: 0-7643-0289-2 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If I could give it a higher rating, I would
Comment: Completely indispensable text for the weaver, curator, researcher, student, collector or just plain curious. Not a theoretical text; rather, the intent is to enable the reader to identify any basketry work produced by Native North Americans from the Arctic to the Southeast.
This book has scores of photos, including a preliminary section where baskets from each geographical region are reproduced in good color photos. Good but simple overview of the history of Native basketry, *great* overview of techniques with schematic drawings. Also has a thorough bibliography. A must-have reference book for any Native American or art-focused library.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book I longed to find on this topic.
Comment: I first learned of this book from a basket trader in Tucson who was explaining why I could never find any Pima baskets that matched a photograph in a booklet I had. He suspected the photographer used a brown filter to enhance the appearance. He pulled out a copy of "Indian Baskets" to show me the difference and told me if I was serious about baskets I needed to get this book. In it, I found along with beautiful photographs large enough to see in detail of many tribes' baskets: an encyclopedia of information including a list of tribes that still made baskets with descriptions of the designs each uses, detailed drawings and descriptions of the many different stitches used in baskets, a chart that can be used to find which tribes make baskets with your favorite stitches, and even a list of prices for baskets sold a few years ago. It was the book I longed to find on this topic. The one obvious omission was a list of sites where tribes sell baskets today, but fortunately that information is readily available from other sources.
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Title: American Indian Basketry by Otis Tufton Mason ISBN: 0486257770 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry by Brian Bibby ISBN: 0930588878 Publisher: Heyday Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Southwestern Indian Baskets: Their History and Their Makers (Studies in American Indian Art) by Andrew Hunter Whiteford ISBN: 0933452241 Publisher: School of American Research Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Indian Basketry. by George Wharton James ISBN: 0486217124 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment by Lois Sherr Dubin ISBN: 0810936895 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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