"California Indian Baskets" is lavishly illustrated in full color
with rare baskets from the magnificent collections of the
University of California, Harvard University, Smithsonian
Institution, The British Museum, Madrid's Museo de America, Royal
Museum of Scotland, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History,
Southwest Museum and many other world-class museums and private
collections. The vast majority of these rare baskets have never
appeared in print before. Made possible in part through the support
and vision of three California Indian tribes, this remarkable book
is the result of decades of research by noted basketry scholar
Ralph Shanks.
Expertly researched and well written, "California Indian
Baskets" honors the achievements of the First Californians. The
book illuminates Native American art, history, technology,
population movements, cultural interactions, and native plant uses.
The book demonstrates basketry studies can rank with archeology,
linguistics and DNA research in understanding and appreciating
Native American culture and history. This is especially true in
California where baskets were central to daily life. It was through
basketry that the most populous and linguistically diverse Native
American population in the United States was able to create a
highly productive economy and vibrant cultural life with no
agriculture and very limited use of pottery. Native California was
not "pre-agricultural," but rather a land where basketry was
combined with native plant resources so successfully that
agriculture was not needed.
Ralph Shanks is the author of the companion volume, "Indian
Baskets of Central California," and is president of the Miwok
Archeological Preserve of Marin. Lisa Woo Shanks is editor of the
"Indian Baskets of California and Oregon" series.
"This is the outstanding new companion volume to Ralph &
Lisa Shanks' acclaimed "Indian Baskets of Central California." The
authors once again provide an authoritative book, this time on the
southern half of California, on an important American art form.
Excellent photography and text." -Jonathan C. H. King, The British
Museum
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