California Indian Basketry

Author : Ralph C. Shanks
Publisher : Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Basket making
ISBN : 0930268202

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California Indian Baskets by Ralph C. Shanks Pdf

California Indian Baskets is lavishly illustrated in full color with rare baskets from the magnificent collections of the University of California, Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, The British Museum, Madrid's Museo de America, Royal Museum of Scotland, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Southwest Museum and many other world-class museums and private collections. The vast majority of these rare baskets have never appeared in print before. Made possible in part through the support and vision of three California Indian tribes, this remarkable book is the result of decades of research by noted basketry scholar Ralph Shanks. Expertly researched and well written, California Indian Baskets honors the achievements of the First Californians. The book illuminates Native American art, history, technology, population movements, cultural interactions, and native plant uses. The book demonstrates basketry studies can rank with archeology, linguistics and DNA research in understanding and appreciating Native American culture and history. This is especially true in California where baskets were central to daily life. It was through basketry that the most populous and linguistically diverse Native American population in the United States was able to create a highly productive economy and vibrant cultural life with no agriculture and very limited use of pottery. Native California was not "pre-agricultural," but rather a land where basketry was combined with native plant resources so successfully that agriculture was not needed.

Author : Ralph C. Shanks
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114205516

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Indian Baskets of Central California by Ralph C. Shanks Pdf

This unique book provides a complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras. Baskets of the Pomo, Ohlone (Costanoan), Coast Miwok, Esselen, Huchnom, Lake Miwok, Maidu, Wappo, and Yuki people are lavishly illustrated and knowledgably and sensitively described. Color photographs and drawings illustrate the rare, fine California Indian baskets from museum and private collections in the United States and Europe. The vast majority of these baskets are illustrated for the first time. Ralph Shanks is vice president of the Miwok Archaeological Preserve of Marin. Lisa Woo Shanks is editor of the Basketry of California and Oregon Series. They are the authors of The North American Indian Travel Guide.

Author : Brian Bibby
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000061538959

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The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry by Brian Bibby Pdf

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.

Author : Wayne A. Thompson,Alan P. Garfinkel
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 194138451X

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California Indian Basketry by Wayne A. Thompson,Alan P. Garfinkel Pdf

This richly illustrated photographic overview captures the beauty and artistry of the remarkable world-class, Native American Indian baskets of California, circa 1895 to 1940, known as the Florescence or Flowering. It is a tribute to these artisans and includes biographical snapshots of weavers and portraits of their masterpiece California Indian baskets, which today exist in museums and private collections throughout the United States. Collecting highly complex and artistic Native American baskets became a successful tourist business in the late 19th and early 20th century -- tourism in the United States exploded as a result of the expansion of the railway system to hitherto relatively inaccessible locations. This new business benefitted both collectors of this art form and the weavers who created them. The transition from woven baskets used for utilitarian use to more durable and less expensive metal cookware and storage vessels allowed weavers the time needed to innovate and create baskets specifically catering to tourist interests. During this period of Florescence, some of the world's most intricate, beautiful, and artistic baskets were woven, particularly by highly-talented weavers representing several Native American tribes located throughout California.

Author : Otis Tufton Mason
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486257778

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American Indian Basketry by Otis Tufton Mason Pdf

The origins of basketry are lost in the mists of prehistory, but making baskets is certainly one of the oldest and most nearly universal crafts of mankind. In the Americas, basket artifacts found in caves in Utah have been dated at 7000 B.C., while twined baskets said to be at least 5,000 years old have been uncovered in Peru. In the American Southwest, an entire Indian culture (ca. 100–700 A.D.) is known as "Basket Maker" because of the distinctive baskets it produced. This exhaustive survey (two volumes in one) of American Indian basketry, perhaps the finest book ever published on the subject, documents basketmaking throughout the Americas — in Eastern North America, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, Oregon, California and the Interior Basin, as well as Mexico, Central and South America. Spanning a wide range of indigenous cultures (Aleutian, Tlinkit, Shoshonean, Athapascam, etc.), the detailed, carefully researched discussions in this book offer a wealth of information about woven and coiled basketry, watertight basketry, materials, basketmaking techniques and preparation, ornamentation and symbolism, as well as the uses of baskets as receptacles, in preparing and serving food, for gleaning and milling, in mortuary customs, in religion and social life, in trapping, carrying water, and in many other areas of Indian life. An interesting and informative chapter on collectors and collections and the preservation of baskets, followed by a helpful biography, rounds out the book. In addition, the author, once Curator of Ethnology at the U.S. National Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution), enhanced this encyclopedic study with over 450 excellent photographs and illustrations. For collectors, preservationists, anthropologists, students of crafts and culture, modern basketmakers, this is an indispensable reference — a massively rich source of information about baskets, the peoples who made them, how they were made, and their role in native American life and culture.

Author : George Wharton James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781628739190

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Indian Basketry by George Wharton James Pdf

Everything there is to know about traditional Native American basket weaving. Native American basket weaving is an intricate and powerful art, representative of the legends and ceremonies of the Indian nations and their cultures. George Wharton James’s Indian Basketry is an invaluable aid for the artist, designer, craftsman, or beginner who wants to recreate authentic and often extinct basket forms and decorative motifs of the Native American peoples. Filled with 355 illustrations and photographs of Native American basket weavers taken at the turn of the twentieth century, this pioneering study—first published in 1901—provides in-depth information about specific aspects of Indian basketry, including: • Its role in legend and ceremony • The origins of forms and designs • Materials and colors used • Weaves and stitches • The symbolism and poetry woven into each basket • Preservation • Tips for the collector • And much more! From Yolo ceremonial baskets to Oraibi sacred trays, Indian Basketry traces the origin, development, and fundamental principles of the basket designs of the major Indian tribes of the southwestern United States and Pacific Coast, along with comments on the basket weaving of a number of other North American tribes.

Author : Brian Bibby
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1597141690

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Essential Art by Brian Bibby Pdf

A treasury of selected pieces from the California Indian Heritage Center, this collection reflects the scale and scope of baskets created by nearly every weaving tradition in Cali-fornia over the last century . This book conveys the dual nature of beauty and practicality that baskets presented as a part of daily life and as a growing example of unique art - a careful selection of the best, beautifully presented.

Author : Sharon E. Dean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015059317092

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Weaving a Legacy by Sharon E. Dean Pdf

Situated on the western edge of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo mountain ranges, Owens Valley has been home for thousands of years to the Owens Valley Paiute and their southern neighbors, the Panamint Shoshone. The willow baskets both groups created are noteworthy for their complex construction and durability, and their materials and designs reflected available resources as well as the seminomadic existence that characterized life in the Great Basin for generations. Since the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of non-Indians into the Valley, the baskets have changed. Weaving a Legacy places those changes in the context of the region's dramatic social history. In addition, the volume closely examines basketry techniques and technology, historic weavers and their lineages, contemporary weavers, and basket collectors. The text is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs of people, landscapes, and baskets. Among the legacies of these baskets are the stories they evoke, many of which the authors recount in this beautiful work.

Author : William A. Turnbaugh,Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764344048

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American Indian Baskets by William A. Turnbaugh,Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Indian baskets
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038545013

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Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California by Alfred Louis Kroeber Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Basketwork
ISBN : OSU:32435060749397

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Illustrated History of Indian Baskets and Plates Made by California Indians and Many Other Tribes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Bibby
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015061175074

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Precious Cargo by Brian Bibby Pdf

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

Author : Lila Morris O'Neale
Publisher : Classics in California Anthropology S.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Basket making
ISBN : 093612704X

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Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers by Lila Morris O'Neale Pdf

Lila O'Neale's Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers, first published in 1932, remains one of the finest and most comprehensive books devoted to American Indian basketry. In contrast to the typical treatment of tribal arts in her day, which saw them as homogeneous, anonymous, and conservative, O'Neale regarded the weavers as individuals, with personal styles and outlooks and a capacity for innovation. A pioneer in the study of Native American art, she presented the art from the weaver's point of view. In addition to an introduction by O'Neale scholar Margot Schevill, this edition includes an appendix listing the identities and tribal affiliations of O'Neale's 43 consultants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822526603

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Weaving a California Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Follows an eleven-year-old Western Mono Indian, as she and her relatives prepare materials needed for basketweaving, make the baskets, and attend the California Indian Basketweavers Association's annual gathering.

Author : Craig D. Bates,Martha J. Lee
Publisher : Yosemite Conservancy
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015045979591

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Tradition and Innovation by Craig D. Bates,Martha J. Lee Pdf

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.