By Native Hands:Woven Treasures from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

Description

By Native Hands describes the history and context of Native American basketry with full-color photographs and scholarly text. The objects are brought to life in words and pictures| including such rare objects as a feathered Pomo blazing sun basket that took three years to create. This book presents baskets from every major geographic region of North America| with examples from the Choctaw| Panamint Shoshone| Salish| Ojibwa| and many others. By the turn of the nineteenth century| Catherine Marshall Gardiner had begun to collect woven baskets from Native American cultures across the continent. Her collection| the first donation to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in 1923| is widely known as one of the finest and most representative Native American basketry collections. It now includes baskets from 88 tribes| almost all of the basket-making tribes in North America. The contributors include Stephen W. Cook| Betty J. Duggan| Dawn Glinsmann| William Ashley Harris| and Joyce Herold.