Basketmakers: Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets

Mowat, Linda; Morphy, Howard; & Dransart, Penny (editors)

ISBN 10: 0902793268 / ISBN 13: 9780902793262

Published by Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1992

About this Item

A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. Monograph number five in the publisher's series, a collection of pieces by different authors on aspects of baskets and basketmaking among native American peoples (North and South America) . 175pp, 10 colour and 175 b&w illustrations. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 011507

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basketmakers: Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets
• Publisher: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0902793268
• ISBN 13: 9780902793262
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

About this title

Synopsis

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) .

About the Author

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