Author Description

This attractive book has been published to complement an exhibition of Native American Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. Contributions are: Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Museum (Linda Mowat), Basketmaking (Linda Mowat), Red Earth People and Southeastern Basketry (Rayna Green), Meaning, Production and Identity in the Northeast Woodlands (Ann McMullen), Northwest Coast Baskets in the Pitt Rivers Collection (Andrea Laforet), California Baskets and Basketmakers (Sally McLendon), Southwestern Baskets (Claire Farrer), Mexico and Guatemala (Stuart Carter), Life of a Basketmaker in Terra del Fuego (Penny Dransart), Northern Andes and Intermontane Valleys of Columbia (Marianne Cardale Schrimphh), Form and Function in the Central and South Central Andes (Penny Dransart), The Amazon (Peter Rivière), Aesthetics in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Howard Morphy), and Basketmakers Today and Tomorrow (Linda Mowat).