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by Lila O'Neale
1995, 272 pages, 58 pages of black and white photo plates
$24.00 (paper), $39.00 each (hardcover)
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 In the summer of 1929, Lila Morris O'Neale journeyed to the Klamath River region in Northwestern California to interview basket weavers about their art. Her completed study, Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers, published in 1932, has been regarded by specialists to be one of the finest and most comprehensive books devoted to American Indian basketry. Among the topics O'Neale considered were: learning and teaching the craft, traditional basket types, materials, aesthetic standards, proportion and contour, design ownership, foreign work and workmanship, and the commercial aspect of Yurok-Karok basketry. The book is amply illustrated with thirty-six text figures and fifty-eight pages of black and white photographs. In addition to a new introduction by O'Neale scholar Margot Schevill, this edition includes an appendix listing the identities and tribal affiliations of O'Neale's forty-three consultants, now no longer anonymous.
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