Basketry
The Evolution of Beaded Baskets
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 5th, 2003
Native Being -- Being Native: Identity and Difference: Proceedings of the Fifth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Carole McAllister
Carlon R. Andre
Description
Discusses the history and development of beaded basket making.
The Fabric of Basketry: Initial Archaeological Study of the Grass Artifacts Assemblage from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Masson-MacLean
Edouard Masson-MacLean
Rick Knecht
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1/2, The Past in the Yup’ik Present: Archaeologies of Climate Change in Western Alaska, 2019, pp. 85-105
Description
Highlights the excavation of grass artifacts near Quinhagak, Alaska and what they can reveal about the precontact Yup'ik people.
Forty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1919-1924
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. Walter Fewkes
Description
Report includes the following papers:
Reports of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes
Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James A Teit, and Helen H. Roberts, under the direction of Franz Boas
Two Prehistoric Villages in Middle Tennessee by William Edward Myer
From Our Hands / An Exhibition of Native Hand Crafts. - 12 November - 5 December 1982. - Program.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Art Gallery at Harbourfront
Description
Program booklet of a primarily Ontario native hand crafts exhibition in Toronto, ON. Short articles on the various aspects of hand crafts precede lists of exhibitors and their works. Hand crafts include basketry, beadwork, clothing, headdresses, dolls, footwear, snowshoes, pipes and rattles.
The Grand Hall: First Peoples of Canada's Northwest Coast; Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Hannah Turner
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 137-139
Description
Book reviews of: The Grand Hall by Leslie Tepper.
Treasures of the RoyalBritishh Columbia Museum and Archives compiled by Jack Lohman.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 137.
Indian Notes [Vol. 2, no. 1, January, 1925]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frank G. Speck
S. K. Lothrop
W. C. Orchard
Melvin R. Gilmore
Marshall H. Saville ... [et al.]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Numerous articles on various topics including one on a shrine to Mother Corn.
Indian Notes [Vol. 6, no. 3, July, 1929]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frederick Johnson
S. K. Lothrop
Marshall H. Saville
Vincent M. Petrullo
Bruno Oetteking ... [et al.]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Numerous articles on various topics including notes on the Ojibwa and Potawatomi of the Parry Island reservation and canoes of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Indian Notes [Vol. 7, no. 3, July, 1930]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. Weltfish
T. T. Waterman
Rudolf Schuller
George G. Heye
Samuel K. Lothrop ... [et al.]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Articles on various topics including coiled gambling baskets of the Pawnee and notes on textiles of central Chile.
Indian Notes [Vol. 7, no. 4, October, 1930]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frank G. Speck
Reginald Pelham Bolton
William C. Orchard
Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Rudolf Schuller ... [et al.]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Numerous articles on various topics including notes on the nation of the Mistassini and a report on a visit to a Chert quarry.
Indian Notes [Vol. 8, no. 3, Summer, 1972]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
U. Vincent Wilcox
Ruth N. Wilcox
William F. Stiles
Melvin R. Gilmore
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Numerous articles on various topics including, the Foster Collection and the Naked Clay exhibit.
Indian Notes [Vol. 9, no. 4, Fall, 1973]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna C. Roosevelt
U. Vincent Wilcox
Michael Sellon
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian.
Articles on various topics including a study of tools from ancient Chile and basketry in the Island Carib.
Indian Record (Vol. XX, No. 4, April 1957)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Interview with Harry Walters, Navajo, Director of the Diné Community College Museum, Tsaile, AZ, October 29, 2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Selbach
Harry Walters
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 85-90
Description
Director comments on museum being downsized from six floors to one and the lack of funds to operate the museum.
Jossette Morris
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Government Photos (photographer)
Description
Female elder seated indoors next to window. Annotation on back of photo: 61-321-33: Jossette Morris, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, who lives at Patuanak, works on birch bark baskets. Lacing is made from dyed birch roots.
Knitting and Basket-Making Receives an Official Nod
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shauna Lewis
Windspeaker , vol. 30, no. 2, Raven's Eye, May 2012, p. 3
Description
Comments on the designation of Cowichan sweaters and Nlaka'pamux basket making as Aboriginal items of national historic significance by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Page 4 of insert entitled Raven's Eye: Special Section Providing News from BC & Yukon.
Moccasins Into Slippers: Traditions and Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Woodlands Indian Textiles
Alternate Title
[Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings]
[Textiles in Trade]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ruth B. Phillips
Description
Comments on the changes in textiles and other types of art due to the replacement of indigenous materials with Euro-American materials.
Mrs. Andela Soloman
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Government Photos (photographer)
Description
On information card: "Mrs. Andela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, working on a birch bark basket, an art she learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians."
Mrs. Angela Solomon, birch bark baskets
Images » Photographs
Description
From caption: "Mrs. Angela Solomon, Patuanak, 75 year old Chipewyan Indian, works on birch bark baskets. Art was learned from her mother. Also makes moccasins decorated with porcupine quills, almost a lost art amongst the Indians. July, 1961"
Native North American Art
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John W. Nunley
Janet Berlo
The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 1, New Series, Summer, 1991, pp. 1-47
Description
Discusses the environmental aspects influencing art in the following regions: Northwest Coast of Canada and Alaska, California, the Southwest, Plains and Eastern Woodlands.
Northwest Coast Basketry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Silvia Koros
Description
Accompanies virtual exhibit, Entwined With Life: Native American Basketry. Teacher's guide for K-12. Contains maps, activities and explanation about baskets, basketry types, uses, materials and techniques.