Native American Basketry An Annotated Bibliography

Subjects:

• The Arts » Art
• Multicultural Studies » Native American Studies

Reviews:

• Porter, author of several books on North American Indians, has organized over 1,100 entries by major cultural areas of North America. The short annotations are 1 to 15 sentences in length and describe the subject matter, geographic area, and special features of each source. The introduction presents a fascinating history of native American basket making from the late 1800s, including the socioeconomic reasons for its decline in the 1920s. Topics include techniques, collections, social significance, and ethnic traditions of Indian baskets. Native American Basketry will be useful to students, researchers, collectors, curators, and artists.
  —Reference Books Bulletin
• This bibliography includes more than 1,100 entries from books, journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations concerning North American Indian basketry. More general cultural works with some information on basketry are also included, and the materials date from early ethnographic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to 1987. Entries are organized in chapters by the major cultural areas of North America, and the subject index provides access by tribe, individual basket makers, and subject. The introduction offers a good overview of research in Native American basketry, and although the annotations vary greatly in thoroughness and length, they are generally useful. This unique, well-produced bibliography is recommended for collections supporting programs in anthropology, crafts, or Native American studies.
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Table of Contents:

• Northeast
• Southeast
• Great Lakes
• Plains
• Great Basin
• Southwest
• California
• Northwest
• Plateau
• Subarctic
• Arctic