The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples

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Politics & Social Sciences

Mason, Otis Tufton

Social Sciences

Mit Pr

Aboriginal American Harpoons: A Study in Ethnic Distribution and Invention

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Franklin Classics

North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers

History

Americas

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.

American Indian Basketry [Two Volumes Bound as One, With 460 Illustrations]

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Dover Publications

Aboriginal American Harpoons: A Study In Ethnic Distribution And Invention (1902)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Aboriginal American basketry: studies in a textile art without machinery. (LC History-America-E)

Reprint Services Corp

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Ayer Co. Pub

Aboriginal American Basketry: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures and Conditio (RIO GRANDE CLASSIC)

Rio Grande Pr Inc

Aboriginal American Indian Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery

P. Smith

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Anthropology

Univ Pr of the Pacific

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