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PAGE 18- PLAINDE/CLER- FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1984 / Seri Tribe Artistry Seen in Basket Work By KEITH ROSENBLUM The Arizona Difly Star TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Some time back, David Burckhalter bought a basket while on a trip to a Seri village in northern Mexico. Since he speaks a little Spanish and no Seri, he was forced to negotiate with the seller by et­ ching numbers in the sand with his foot. After a couple of minutes, the bargaining session ended, and the Tucsonan walked away with the basket -- and with the seed for a book that he is now writing. The story is emerging slowly -- like the tedious process of bin­ ding together torote plants to make a basket. When it is published, the book will tell in color pictures and text about the craft ot the impoverish­ ed, largely unassimilated Indian tribe. "When" may be a year or two, or more; for a variety of reasons. Burckhalter, 39, who has visited the Seris near Kino Bay, Sonora, regularly for the past decade, works as a commercial photographer and buyer of Seri arts to support his writing. And there is no pressing deadline for such a text, he concedes. His last book, ,4The Sens," which was published by the University of Arizona Press, was years in the writing and more than two years from completion to publication. That book, a pictorial essay about the tribe, nas sold about 5,000 copies in three printings. From Burckhalter s perspec­ tive, there is far more than a "how-to guide" to be writ- ten.There is a story about the le who make the baskets, they mean to their people wh( and what makers. The tribe has been making baskets as far back as anyone can remember, unlike the wood carvings for which they are known. The tribe started carving those in the early 1960s, he said. 1 "Their legends talk about spirits within the torote plant," hie said, "and within the large, "so-called fiesta (in Spanish) or sappin (in Seri) there's a belief that when they press the fiber, they hear squeaking, and inter­ pret it as the spirit wailing. That tfirow food to onesided pu"t corn or some other food inside of it. There are also certain taboos associated with the basket as well." Burckhalter believes that the baskets made currently by the Seris, using simple interlocking stitches, and natural dyes from the roots of plants, are the finest being handmade today -- anywhere. The baskets range drastically in price, with the largest ones, which represent a year's labor, selling for well into the thousands of dollars. Soft-spoken and pensive, Bur­ ckhalter works from a round bartender's stool at a desk made from eight bricks and a thick slab of wood. His home and office is a one-time grocery store. His writer looks as if one of the first. "Taking pictures satisfies the hunting instinct in me. I ap- tch... observe... and shoot... Remington type* it may nave been A graduate of the University of Arizona's master's program in zoology -- "I thought I'ado a lot of traveling that way," he recalls -- Burckhalter started doi photography when he got out school. >ut just film," he explains. But writing a book is different. "I'm not a writer, and this comes hard to me," he said. "I've spent a lot of time thinking about now I'm going to present this, and I've had to learn to be a writer." Burckhalter says it takes a person with intimate knowledge of basketry to appreciate the work the Seris do, and he wants to be sure this is conveyed. The World Almanac The World Almanac 1. When was Jake LaMotta middleweight champion in boxing? (a) 1960 (b) 1949- 1951(c)1939-1941 2 Approximately how many millions of people lost their lives Ui World War II9 (a) 10 million (b) 45 million (c) 100 million 3. 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