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American Indian Baskets: Building and Caring for a Collection
William A. Turnbaugh
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Description for American Indian Baskets: Building and Caring for a Collection
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 786 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 222 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1642.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1642g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764344046
SKU
V9780764344046
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About William A. Turnbaugh
Bill and Sarah Turnbaugh are anthropologists with university teaching and museum experience, whose interest in Native American craft-arts such as basketry and Southwestern jewelry has been expressed through two previous Schiffer books.
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