The Village Basket Weaver

Author : Jonathan London
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Basket Weaver written by Jonathan London and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy in a small Carib village learns the importance of traditions when his grandfather the basket-weaver becomes too feeble to weave.

Author : Jacque Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925986365
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basket Weaver written by Jacque Summers and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yo'oe is very very shy and rarely speaks to anyone. But when grandma teaches her how to basket weave Yo'oe gets an idea of how she can communicate with the village. This is a beautifully illustrated book for 4-8 year old readers. Proceeds from this sale benefit nonprofit organisation Library For All, helping children around the world learn to rea

Author : Therese DeAngelis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736815352
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee written by Therese DeAngelis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Cherokee Indians, focusing on their tradition of weaving baskets. Includes a cookie recipe and instructions for playing a game and making a mat.

Author : Jacilee Wray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188405
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Hands of a Weaver written by Jacilee Wray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stems—and meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsula’s Native peoples—particularly women—and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft. Abundantly illustrated, this book also showcases the basketry collection of Olympic National Park. Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to the daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah cultures of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collected here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalities among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques. Because basketry was interwoven with indigenous knowledge and culture throughout history, alterations in the art over time reflect important social changes. Using primary-source material as well as interviews, volume editor Jacilee Wray shows how Olympic Peninsula craftspeople participated in the development of the commercial basket industry, transforming useful but beautiful objects into creations appreciated as art. Other contributors address poaching of cedar and native grasses, and conservation efforts—contemporary challenges faced by basket makers. Appendices identify weavers and describe weaves attributed to each culture, making this an important reference for both scholars and collectors. Featuring more than 120 photographs and line drawings of historical and twentieth-century weavers and their baskets, this engaging book highlights the culture of distinct Native Northwest peoples while giving voice to individual artists, masters of a living art form.

Author : Luther Weston Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basket Maker written by Luther Weston Turner and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Anna Fariello
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230021
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cherokee Basketry written by M. Anna Fariello and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tradition that dates back almost ten thousand years, basketry is an integral aspect of Cherokee culture. In the mountains of Western North Carolina, stunning baskets are still made from rivercane, white oak and honeysuckle and dyed with roots and bark. Cherokee Basketry describes the craft's forms, functions and methods and records the tradition's celebrated makers. This complex art, passed down from mothers to daughters, is a thread that bonds modern Native Americans to ancestors and traditional ways of life. Anna Fariello, associate professor at Western Carolina University, reveals that baskets hold much more than food and clothing. Woven with the stories of those who produce and use them, these masterpieces remain a powerful testament to creativity and imagination.

Author : Helga Teiwes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536945
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopi Basket Weaving written by Helga Teiwes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the inborn wisdom that has guided them for so long through so many obstacles, Hopi men and women perpetuate their proven rituals, strongly encouraging those who attempt to neglect or disrespect their obligations to uphold them. One of these obligations is to respect the flora and fauna of our planet. The Hopi closeness to the Earth is represented in all the arts of all three mesas, whether in clay or natural fibers. What clay is to a potter's hands, natural fibers are to a basket weaver." —from the Introduction Rising dramatically from the desert floor, Arizona's windswept mesas have been home to the Hopis for hundreds of years. A people known for protecting their privacy, these Native Americans also have a long and less known tradition of weaving baskets and plaques. Generations of Hopi weavers have passed down knowledge of techniques and materials from the plant world around them, from mother to daughter, granddaughter, or niece. This book is filled with photographs and detailed descriptions of their beautiful baskets—the one art, above all others, that creates the strongest social bonds in Hopi life. In these pages, weavers open their lives to the outside world as a means of sharing an art form especially demanding of time and talent. The reader learns how plant materials are gathered in canyons and creek bottoms, close to home and far away. The long, painstaking process of preparation and dying is followed step by step. Then, using techniques of coiled, plaited, or wicker basketry, the weaving begins. Underlying the stories of baskets and their weavers is a rare glimpse of what is called "the Hopi Way," a life philosophy that has strengthened and sustained the Hopi people through centuries of change. Many other glimpses of the Hopi world are also shared by author and photographer Helga Teiwes, who was warmly invited into the homes of her collaborators. Their permission and the permission of the Cultural Preservation Office of the Hopi Tribe gave her access to people and information seldom available to outsiders. Teiwes was also granted access to some of the ceremonial observances where baskets are preeminent. Woven in brilliant reds, greens, and yellows as well as black and white, Hopi weavings, then, not only are an arresting art form but also are highly symbolic of what is most important in Hopi life. In the women's basket dance, for example, woven plaques commemorate and honor the Earth and the perpetuation of life. Other plaques play a role in the complicated web of Hopi social obligation and reciprocity. Living in a landscape of almost surreal form and color, Hopi weavers are carrying on one of the oldest arts traditions in the world. Their stories in Hopi Basket Weaving will appeal to collectors, artists and craftspeople, and anyone with an interest in Native American studies, especially Native American arts. For the traveler or general reader, the book is an invitation to enter a little-known world and to learn more about an art form steeped in meaning and stunning in its beauty.

Author : Bert Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basket Weavers of Arizona written by Bert Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher : Maypop Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumi written by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana) and published by Maypop Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufis refer to themselves as 'workers' and 'lovers' interchangeably, and the action that needs doing always involves a companionship with the spiritual world. In these poems from the Mathnawi, Rumi finds metaphors for that mysterious co-operation.

Author : Grace Steele Woodward
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806118154
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cherokees written by Grace Steele Woodward and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.