Native American Basketry of California (3 volume set)

Description

Author: Moser, Christopher L.

Publisher: Riverside Museum Press

Pub Date: 1986-1993

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Volume 1/Central California: Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Signed by the author on the title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Volume 2/Northern California: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears. Signed by the author on title page.  One approx. 1/2″ crease to lower front cover corner.   Slight edge and corner wear.  Volume 3/Southern California: Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Inscribed by the author on title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Exhibit catalogs.  Volume 1: Native American Basketry of Central California (1986, 0-935661-12-3).  Baskets from the Northern Mojave and Western Great Basin, the Shoshone, the Sierra Nevada, the Central Valley, and the Coastal Region.  Includes a “Rogues’ Gallery” of missing and stolen baskets from the museum.  Volume 2: American Indian Basketry of Northern California (1989, 0-935661-18-2).  Baskets from northeastern and northwestern California, including the Shasta, Modoc and Klamath.  Includes a section “Warps and Wefts: The Art of Twining”, with a chapter on the ethnobotany of basketry plants.  Volume 3:  Native American Basketry of Southern California (1993, 0-935661-20-4).   Southern California, from approximately Santa Barbara south to the Mexican border.  Baskets from the Chumash, Gabrielino, Luiseño, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi and others.  Sections on Basketry Materials and Techniques, Basket Function, Shape and Design, and Mission Baskets of Unknown Tribal Affinity.  All volumes illustrated with color and black-and-white photos, maps, diagrams.  VERY RARE as a set.  SOLD AS A SET ONLY.