Basketmakers: Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets

This attractive book has been published to complement an exhibition of Native American Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. Contributions are: Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Museum (Linda Mowat) , Basketmaking (Linda Mowat) , Red Earth People and Southeastern Basketry (Rayna Green) , Meaning, Production and Identity in the Northeast Woodlands (Ann McMullen) , Northwest Coast Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Collection (Andrea Laforet) , California Baskets and Basketmakers (Sally McLendon) , Southwestern Baskets (Claire Farrer) , Mexico and Guatemala (Stuart Carter) , Life of a Basketmaker in Terra del Fuego (Penny Dransart) , Northern Andes and Intermontane Valleys of Columbia (Marianne Cardale Schrimphh) , Form and Function in the Central and South Central Andes (Penny Dransart) , The Amazon (Peter Rivière) , Aesthetics in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Howard Morphy) , and Basketmakers Today and Tomorrow (Linda Mowat) .

Howard Morphy is Research Professor of Anthropology, Australia National University.