General Note:
Companion to a special exhibition of baskets from the Museum's collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-180) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Native American baskets at the Pitt Rivers Museum ; A guide to basketmaking / Linda Mowat -- Red Earth People and Southeastern basketry / Rayna Green -- Talking through baskets : meaning, production and identity in the Northeast woodlands / Ann McMullen -- Windows on diversity : Northwest Coast baskets in the Pitt Rivers Collection / Andrea Laforet -- California baskets and basketmakers / Sally McLendon -- Those who lived before / Claire Farrer -- Basketry in Mexico and Guatemala / Stuart Carter -- Fuegia basket, or the life of a basketmaker in Tierra del Fuego / Penny Dransart -- Basketry in Northern Andes and Intermontane Valleys of Colombia / Marianne Cardale Schrimpff -- Form and function in the basketry of the Central and South Central Andes : an overview from prehispanic times to the present / Penny Dransart -- Baskets and basketmakers of the Amazon / Peter Rivière -- The art of basketry : aesthetics in a cross-cultural perspective / Howard Morphy -- Basketmakers today and tomorrow / Linda Mowat.
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