Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo

This is a newly published edition of a title that had gone out of print. Here is the most informative work on baleen baskets, covering their history, characteristics, and construction, as well as profiling their makers. The author is Curator of Ethnology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The art form that uses whale byproduct is practiced by about 10-15 weavers, mostly residents of Point Hope. It originated in the early 1900s in Alaskan coastal whaling villages as a source of income to sell to tourists.