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Mabel Mckay: Weaving the Dream
by Sarris, Greg, author
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As new. Fine in fine jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520086120
- ISBN 13
- 9780520086128
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkerley: University of California Press, 2013. First ed., first printing (full number line). Hardcover. As new. Fine in fine jacket. Octavo in blue illus jacket; 165 pages : map; 21 cm. Portraits of American Genius [series].
Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sarah Taylor's Granddaughter; Carnivals, Madams, and Mixed-Up Indian Doctors; Medicine Woman; Prayer Basket.
A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight-the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beauti.
Pomo baskets. Pomo mythology. Tisserandes pomo -- Biographies. Mythologie pomo. Pomo (Indiens) -- Vie religieuse. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. HISTORY -- Native American. Pomo baskets. Pomo mythology. Pomo women weavers. Named Person: McKay, Mabel, 1907-1993. McKay, Mabel, 1907-1993. Biographies. Biographies.
Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sarah Taylor's Granddaughter; Carnivals, Madams, and Mixed-Up Indian Doctors; Medicine Woman; Prayer Basket.
A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight-the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beauti.
Pomo baskets. Pomo mythology. Tisserandes pomo -- Biographies. Mythologie pomo. Pomo (Indiens) -- Vie religieuse. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. HISTORY -- Native American. Pomo baskets. Pomo mythology. Pomo women weavers. Named Person: McKay, Mabel, 1907-1993. McKay, Mabel, 1907-1993. Biographies. Biographies.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100293
- Title
- Mabel Mckay: Weaving the Dream
- Author
- Sarris, Greg, author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed., first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0520086120
- ISBN 13
- 9780520086128
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkerley
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Native Americans, California
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts;
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