PANAMINT SHOSHONE BASKETRY an American Art Form [R]

PANAMINT SHOSHONE BASKETRY an American Art Form

by Eva Slater

Publisher: Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, California

Soft cover, first edition, 2000, 141 pages, illustrated with historic photographs and color illustrations. New condition

CONTENTS

Historical Background

Map

Basket Makers

        Isabel Hanson

        Mamie Gregory

        Mary Wrinkle

        Maggie Bellas

        Maggie Juaquin

        Sarah Hunter

        Laura Shaw

        Susie Wilson

        Tina Dock

Early Basket Collectors

The Decline

From the Preface

Our knowledge of the Panamint is sparse.  In Kroeber’s one-thousand-page Handbook of the Indians of California, three pages of text are devoted to the Panamint and only one paragraph to Panamint basketry.

The present volume recreates the cultural, temporal, environmental, and historical context in which specific basket were fashioned.  It reintegrates the human in the manufacture of the artifact.  We are confronted with real people.  The heretofore unknown weavers are once again made to live and speak.  The art of basketry is humanized.  The foundations of a true art history are established.