Indian baskets of central California
Subtitle: art, culture, and history : Native American basketry from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay north to Mendocino and east to the Sierras
By: Ralph Shanks ; Lisa Woo Shanks, editor.
Contributors: Shanks, Lisa Woo.; Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: MAPOM publication -- no. 8; Volume 1 of the Indian baskets of California and Oregon series; Indian baskets of California and Oregon series -- v. 1.
Publisher: Costaño Books; Distributed by University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Novato, CA; Seattle, Wa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780930268183
Subjects: Indian baskets -- California -- History; Basket making -- California -- History; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- California
Other titles: Native American basketry from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay north to Mendocino and east to the Sierras
Description: "This book provides the most complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras." "Nearly 200 full color photographs and drawings illustrate the rare, fine California Indian baskets from great museums and private collections in the United States and Europe. The vast majority of these baskets are illustrated for the first time."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.