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History, old-style wool blankets, changes brought about by traders, symbolism of design and color, a Navajo weaver at work, more. Emphasis on Navajo. Includes information on the Bayeta blanket, squaw dresses, dyeing, belts, garters, hair braids, imitation blankets, the Chimayó blanket, and reliable dealers. 254 illustrations, 32 in color.
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(The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton Jame...)
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton James 1903. About the Author George Wharton James (1858 - 1923) George Wharton James (1858-1923) was a prolific popular lecturer and journalist, writing more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest. James was born in Lincolnshire, England. He was ordained as a Methodist minister and came to the United States in 1881, serving in parishes in Nevada and southern California. However, in 1889 he was sued for divorce, accused by his wife with committing numerous acts of adultery. He subsequently underwent an ecclesiastical trial, charged with real estate fraud, using faked credentials, and sexual misconduct. He was defrocked, although he was later reinstated. James' books included The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906), Through Ramona's Country (1909), In & Out of the Old Missions of California (1912), and The Lake of the Sky (1915). Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and health faddism. He had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, another writer with similar regional interests. (Quote from wikipedia.org) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. http://www.forgottenbooks.org
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Excerpt from Through Ramona's Country Helen Hunt Jackson, from painting made while studying the conditions of the Indians of Southern California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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(Everything there is to know about traditional Native Amer...)
Everything there is to know about traditional Native American basket weaving. Native American basket weaving is an intricate and powerful art, representative of the legends and ceremonies of the Indian nations and their cultures. George Wharton James’s Indian Basketry is an invaluable aid for the artist, designer, craftsman, or beginner who wants to recreate authentic and often extinct basket forms and decorative motifs of the Native American peoples. Filled with 355 illustrations and photographs of Native American basket weavers taken at the turn of the twentieth century, this pioneering studyfirst published in 1901provides in-depth information about specific aspects of Indian basketry, including: Its role in legend and ceremony The origins of forms and designs Materials and colors used Weaves and stitches The symbolism and poetry woven into each basket Preservation Tips for the collector And much more! From Yolo ceremonial baskets to Oraibi sacred trays, Indian Basketry traces the origin, development, and fundamental principles of the basket designs of the major Indian tribes of the southwestern United States and Pacific Coast, along with comments on the basket weaving of a number of other North American tribes.
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Excerpt from The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California), Vol. 1 of 2: Its Rivers and Its Mountains, Its Canyons and Its Springs, Its Life and Its History, Pictured and Described Hot Sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done Unclothed and mute as when the groans of chaos turned Thy naked, burning °bosom to the sun. The mountain silences have speech, the rivers sing; Thou answerest never unto anything. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Wonders of the Colorado Desert, (Southern California), Vol. 2 of 2: Its Rivers and Its Mountains, Its Canyons and Its Springs, Its Life and Its History, Pictured and Described; Including an Account of a Recent Journey Made Down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea The difference in the summer climate would be especially marked. The flood season of the Colorado River is from April to September. The flood is caused by the melting of the snows in the Rocky Mountains, where the river has its source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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(A guide to Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California a...)
A guide to Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, profusely illustrated with photographs, first published in 1915.
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Franciscans Missions of California, an historical and pictorial account. 552 Pages.
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James was born on September 27, 1858, in Gainsborough, England. His parents were John and Ann (Wharton) James of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was twenty-three. Born into an unprivileged non-conformist world and oftener ill than not, he made up for what he lacked by his precocity, his lifelong will to learn, his gift for human relations. In his youth he seemed to be destined for the church.
After crossing the ocean in 1881 James was a Methodist minister in Nevada and California for seven years. But between 1883 and 1888 he joined the Royal Historical, Astronomical, and Microscopical societies, the Geological Society of London, and the Victoria Institute.
The turning-point of his career came in 1889, in the form of a crisis more than physical. In the end he recovered his health and discovered the air he could breathe. James found it around him in the breezy Southwest, which he made his peculiar province. He studied, rode, camped, and photographed with the greater zest, perhaps, because he had known a cloudier and more ordered land. In the meantime he took but a step from the pulpit to the platform, lecturing from coast to coast on the Chautauqua circuit, for the Brooks Humane Fund of Pasadena, in educational institutions, before scientific bodies. Writing, however, became his true vocation. For thirty years articles, pamphlets, and books poured from him with remarkable facility. Among his other activities he also found time to be editor of the Basket (1903-1904), associate editor of the Craftsman (1904-1905), editor of Out West (1912-1914), and literary editor of the Oakland Tribune (1919).
James in his way represents the Ruskin-Browning tradition transplanted to the soil of Thoreau, and finding the sun not in Italy but in the Painted Desert. Of his more than forty volumes, revealing a wide range of interests, several are tracts in ethics or sociology. All of them reflect the American cult of optimism, and almost all celebrate the land the writer loved best. If he did not invent a patriotic slogan, he contributed much to its propagation. Four of his best-known books, on California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, were written for a See America First series. Similar in intent were Our American Wonderlands (1915), his books on the Grand Canyon and Lake Tahoe, and others. As a Californian by choice he took especial interest in the Hispano-Mexican "antiquities" of that state. In and Out of the Old Missions of California (1905) is the chief of half a dozen volumes in this field. He had the good taste to urge the preservation, rather than the restoration, of the missions. His records of their history, architecture, decoration, and furniture are indispensable for the antiquarian. The Indians of the Southwest had no more constant or comprehending friend than James. He studied their dialects, customs, beliefs, and arts, was adopted into several of their tribes, maintained friendly relations with hundreds of tribesmen, and never lost an opportunity to advance their interests. Of his books about them, those on Indian baskets and blankets and the symbolism of Indian design are among the earliest authentic works on the subject. He was almost the first white man to witness the Snake Dance of the Hopi and to appreciate its ritual significance.
At the time of his death, which occured at the age of sixty-five, on November 8, 1923, he was on the point of leaving for Washington, as member of an advisory committee called by the secretary of the interior to reconsider government policies toward the tribes.
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James was a member of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Astronomical Society, a member of the Microscopical Society, a member of the Geological Society of London, and a member of the Victoria Institute.
James was a man of hobbies, enthusiasms, and sympathies, rather than a scholar or an artist.
In 1895 James married Emma (George) Farnsworth of New England and Pasadena.
