The Basket Weavers of Arizona [SOLD]


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Bert Robinson
  • Subject: Native American Basketry
  • Item # C3773G
  • Date Published: First Published in 1954. This reprint edition 1991.
  • Size: 164 pages
  • SOLD

THE BASKET WEAVERS OF ARIZONA by Bert Robinson

University of New Mexico Press

First Edition published in 1954.  This paperback edition published in 1991.

 

 

Contents

Foreword to the 1991 Edition by H. Thomas Cain

Foreword to the 1954 Edition by Wayne Pratt

Preface

Introduction

 

Part I – Weavers of the Desert Country

            Pimería and Its People

                        White Immigration

                        Pima-Maricopa Alliance

                        Sacaton—1871

                        Pima Baskets

                                    Basket Designs

                                    Basket Types and Their Uses

            The Desert People

                        Ancient Shrines

                        Papago Economy

                        Yucca Baskets

                        White Man’s Influence

 

Part II – Weavers of the Mountain Country

            The Athabascan Apache

                        Early History

                        Apaches vs Americans

                                    San Carlos

                        The Modern Apache

                        Apache Baskets

            The Sun People—The Yavapai

                        Yavapai History

                                    Fort McDowell

                        Yavapai Baskets

 

Part III – Weavers of the Agricultural Country

                        Tedjupa and His People

                                    The White Man in the Walapai Country

                                    Walapai Arts

                         The Land of the Willows

                                    The Medicine Man

                                    The Havasupai Indian Reservation

                                    Havasupai Craft

                                    The Wig-li-wa

                         Chemehuevis on the Colorado

                                    The Explorer

                                    Chemehuevi Reservation

                                    Chemehuevi Baskets

                         The People of the Mesas

                                    Hopi Arts and Crafts

                                    A Hopi Wedding

                                    The Kiva

                                    The Hopi Pahos

                                    Awatobi

                         Citation

                        Index

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Bert Robinson
  • Subject: Native American Basketry
  • Item # C3773G
  • Date Published: First Published in 1954. This reprint edition 1991.
  • Size: 164 pages
  • SOLD

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