The Pima and His Basket by J. F. Breazeale, first issued in 1923 by Acme Printing Company of Tucson, is an early study of the basketry of the Pima, the Akimel O'odham or River People of southern Arizona. Breazeale attends closely to materials and meaning, the willow and devil's-claw worked into the coiled forms, and the book's own design embodies its subject: the cover sets a black Greek-fret border and a central whirling-log motif against desert-yellow, framed, as a printer's note explains, by "coyote tracks," the pan-di-co of the Pima.
This is the Fur Press reprint out of Chadron, Nebraska, which has kept this small ethnographic title in circulation for later readers.
Fur Press reprint of the 1923 original
Copyright 1923 by J. F. Breazeale (Acme Printing, Tucson); this copy is the later Fur Press (Chadron, Nebraska) reprint.
| Author | J. F. Breazeale |
| Publisher | Fur Press (reprint) |
| Edition | Fur Press reprint of the 1923 original |
| Condition | Slim softcover, decorative border. |
| Topic | Pima (Akimel O'odham) basketry |
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