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Situated on the western edge of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo mountain ranges, Owens Valley has been home for thousands of years to the Owens Valley Paiute and their southern neighbors, the Panamint Shoshone. The willow baskets both groups created are noteworthy for their complex construction and durability, and their materials and designs reflected available resources as well as the seminomadic existence that characterized life in the Great Basin for generations. Since the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of non-Indians into the Valley, the baskets have changed. Weaving a Legacy places those changes in the context of the region's dramatic social history. In addition, the volume closely examines basketry techniques and technology, historic weavers and their lineages, contemporary weavers, and basket collectors. The text is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs of people, landscapes, and baskets. Among the legacies of these baskets are the stories they evoke, many of which the authors recount in this beautiful work.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology

• Full title: Weaving A Legacy - Paper
• Subtitle: Indian Baskets and the People of Owens Valley, California
• Author: Craig D Bates
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• EAN: 9780874808087
• ISBN: 9780874808087
• ID: 06399399
• Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Weight: 668 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 216 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2005

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