Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.
Contents
"We didn't make fancy baskets until we were discovered" : fancy-basket making in Maine / Joan Lester -- Space and work in Maliseet basket-making / Tom McFeat -- Weaving the woods : tradition and response in Southern New England splint basketry / Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh and William A. Turnbaugh -- Symbolic motifs on painted baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot / Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Jayne G. Fawcett -- Looking for people in woodsplint basketry decoration -- A key into technical vocabulary -- Descriptive entries for the objects / Ann McMullen -- Spirituality and survival in Schaghticoke basket-making / Trudie Lamb Richmond -- Stop making sense : toward an anti-catalogue of woodsplint basketry / Russell G. Handsman -- Public interpretation : a plurality of meanings / Mark P. Leone.