{"product_id":"indian-basketry-dover-books-on-the-american-indians","title":"Indian Basketry (Dover Books on the American Indians)","description":"271 pp. Includes 355 illustrations featuring numerous designs and styles. 1972  reissue of the 1909 fourth edition. Since it first publication in 1901, this pioneering study by George Wharton James, once a leading collector and authority, has become a valuable source book for American Indian basketry. From Poma mush baskets to Paiute dicing trays, Indian Basketry traces the origin, development, and fundamental principles of Indian basket designs for the major tribal units in Southwestern United States and Pacific Coast, with occasional comments on the basket weaving of a number of other North American tribes. Author of several books on the Southwest, George James has used his extensive experience in the field to compile indispensable information (much gathered directly through interviews with Indian basketmakers) covering nearly every aspect of Indian basketry: esthetics, designs, dyes, and coloration, weaving and stitching techniques (including the bamtush and dah-lah methods), basket types, tribal variation, and functional considerations, offering clear instructions for those who may be interested in reproducing these ancient American crafts. James also includes a description of various native weaving materials such as pine root, bark, sumac, willow, twigs, fern stalks, grass and palm fronds, with suggestions regarding the ways in which the Indians wove shells, feathers, beads, leather, and pine needles into their basket designs. Includes: Preface; Introduction; Basketry, the Mother of Pottery; Basketry in Indian Legend; Basketry in Indian Ceremonial; Basket Making People; Materials Used in Indian Basketry; Colors in Indian Basketry; Weaves or Stitches of Indian Basketry; Basket Forms and Designs: Their Origin and Relation to Art; Some Uses of Indian Baskets; Various Indian Baskets; Symbolism of Inidan Basketry: Symbolism in Basketry Froms, Developement of Symbolism in Basket Designs, Imitation and Conventionalization, The Birth and Developement of Geometrical Designs, Diverse Meanings of Designs, Designs of Animal Origin, Designs of Vegetable Origin, Designs of Natural Origin, Designs of Artifcat Origin, Basket with Mixed Designs; The Poetry of Indian Basketry; Baskets to be Prized; The Decadence of the Art; How the Art May be Preserved; Hints to the Collector; Bibliography of Indian Basketry; Appendix; Index.","brand":"Dover Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44780435800134,"sku":"2352767","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2352767.jpg?v=1774292648","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/indian-basketry-dover-books-on-the-american-indians","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}