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Tradition and Innovation
A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite - Mono Lake Area
By: Craig D. Bates, Martha J. Lee

$49.95 + S&H
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Lucy Telles with her most famous basket

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Actual Poster From 1929, Indian Field Days


The Fiske Collection, Yosemite ca. 1900


Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade
By: Marvin Cohodas Ph.D.

$39.95 + S&H

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A book about Elizabeth Louise Hickox and her daughter Louise Hickox.
This Book was published in 1997, by The University Of Arizona Press.
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The Hover Collection of Karuk Baskets
By: Clarke Memorial Museum

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Degikup: Washoe Basketry 1895-1935
By: Marvin Cohodas Ph.D.

Book Out of Print
Subject to Availability
$200.00


Panamint Shoshone Basketry
An American Art Form
By: Eva Slater

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Handbook of the Indians of California 



by A.L. Kroeber 



- Dover Publications, Inc 1976. Softcover

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"American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts No. 12"

"Washoe Basketry"

Written by Marvin Cohodas Ph.D.
Published By John M. Gogol

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"American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts No. 10"

Klamath, Modoc, and Shasta Basketry

By: John M. Gogol

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Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family and Friends

Remember Your Relations:
The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family and Friends
by Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney and Susan Billy

Examines the lives of work of the weavers whose baskets are part of the collection assembled by Pomo Indian basketmakers Annie Burke and her daughter Elsie Allen.

$24.00 (includes shipping)

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Pomo Basketmaking: Elsie Allen

Pomo Basketmaking
by Elsie Allen

This how-to book by famed Pomo Indian weaver Elsie Allen is a classic. Along with instructions on how to make different types of Pomo baskets, Mrs. Allen talks of her life and experiences growing up in Sonoma and Mendocino counties.

$10.00 (includes shipping)

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Pomo Indian Basketry: Samuel Barrett

Pomo Indian Basketry
by Samual Barrett

This volume is the most complete and detailed of Pomo Indian basketry. First published in 1908, it is updated by an introduction by Grace Hudson Museum director Sherrie Smith-Ferri providing a human context for Barrett's work.

$33.00 (includes shipping)

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Weaving a California Tradition: A Native American Basketmaker - Front Cover
Weaving a California Tradition: A Native American Basketmaker - Back Cover

Weaving a California Tradition:
A Native American Basketmaker
by Linda Yamane

This richly detailed photographic essay accompanies Carly, and 11 year old girl, as she goes through the process of making a basket; from gathering the materials, to weaving, to entering the basket weaver show. Lush photographs and personal text bring to life this special part of California Indian tradition.

$13.00 (includes shipping)

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July 1975 Arizona Highways Magazine

Are you a collector of Native American Indian baskets?

Then you need this absolutely amazing issue of Arizona Highways!

  • Entire issue devoted entirely to Southwest Indian basketry!

  • Page after page of vibrant photographs - just look at the photos below!

  • The wide range of examples is amazing!

    Includes Hopi, Navajo, Yokuts, Chemehuevi, Washo, Mission, Papago, Pima, Aluet, Tlingit, Pomo, Panamint, Paiute, Maidu, Apache, Zuni, , Mimac, San Juan, Ottawa, Cherokee, Iroquois, Chippewa, Yavapai, and others


  • 48 pages; pre-owned; no advertisements; very good condition with some wear and wrinkling on the edges

AMERICAN INDIAN BASKETRY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
by Dr. Chris L. Moser, 1989.

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Amanda Wilson Article by:
Bates, Craig D. and Brian Bibby

1984    Amanda Wilson: Maidu Weaver.
 American Indian Art Magazine 9(3):38-43.

Copies of Magazine available - Price: $20.00


Sarah Mayo Article by:
Marvin Cohodas

Autumn 1981  Sarah Mayo and Her Contemporaries
American Indian Art Magazine

Volume 6, Number 4

Copies of Magazine available - Price $20.00


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Baskets and Basketry Books
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Basketry Christopher, F. J.

Basketry, The Technique of

Harvey, Virginia

Indian Basketry

James, George Wharton

Baskets From Nature's Bounty

Jensen, Elizabeth

Art & Style of Western Indian Basketry, The

Maryhill Museum Coll.

Pine Needle Raffia Basketry

McFarland, Jeannie

Basketry Today with Material from Nature

Meilach & Menagh

Artistic Basketry of Puget Sound, Crow's Shells

Niles & Mahr

Basketry - Projects from Baskets to Grass ...

Sekijima, Hisako ???

Basketry of the Appalachian Mountains

Stephenson, Sue H.

International Basketry for Weavers & Collectors

Will, Christoph

Complete Book of Baskets & Basketry

Wright, Dorothy


Selected California Native American Basketry Bibliography

Barrett, Samuel A.
1905 Basket Designs of the Pomo Indians, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

1908 Pomo Indian Basketry, Berkeley: The University of California Press. (UCPAAE, vol. 7, no. 3) 

Elsasser, Albert B. 
1978 Basketry, Handbook of North American Indians, Robert Heizer, editor, volume 8, (California),Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 

Fowler, Catherine S. and Lawrence E. Dawson 
1986 Ethnographic Basketry, Handbook of North American Indians, Warren L. D'Azevedo, editor, volume 11, (Great Basin),Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 

Kroeber, Alfred L. and Samuel A. Barrett 
1960 Fishing among the Indians of Northwestern California, Anthropological Records, 21 (1): 1-210. 

Kroeber, Alfred L
1932 Basketry Designs of the Mission Indians, New York: American Museum of Natural History. 

1905 Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northwestern California, Berkeley: University of California Press. (UCPAAE, vol. 2, no. 4) 

Moser, Christopher 
1989 American Indian Basketry of Northern California: catalog for the exhibition of “American Indian Basketry of Northern California,” Riverside: Riverside Museum Press. 

O'Neale, Lila 
1932 Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers, Berkeley: University of California Press (University of California Publications in Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 32, no. 1).

Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians 
University of California - Berkeley

 


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