References with respect to Carl Schuster's biography, bibliography, and studies on his collection at The Field Museum:

References to The Field Museum's artifacts and biography of Schuster:

Baker, Muriel and Margaret Lunt. Blue and White, the Cotton Embroideries of Rural China. New York, NY: Scribner, 1977.

Cammann, Schuyler. "In Memorium: Carl Schuster". Textile Museum Journal vol.3 no.3, December 1972, pp.2-3.

Carpenter, Edmund, Carl Schuster, and Lorraine Spiess. Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity. New York: Rock Foundation, 1988.

Carpenter, Edmund and Carl Schuster. Patterns That Connect. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996.

Carpenter, Edmund, "Carl Schuster" http://www.tribalarts.com/people/schuster.html. (accessed: 28 April 2005)

Schuster, Carl, Chinese Peasant Embroideries (dissertation), University of Vienna, 1934. (One copy is located in the library of The Field Museum, Chicago)

Schuster, Carl. "Das Vogelmotiv in der chinesischen Bauernstickerei (part of his Ph. D. thesis) in J. Strzygowski," Spuren Indogermanischen Glaubens in der bildenden Kunst, Heidelberg: C.Winter, 1936, pp. 326-344.

Schuster, Carl. "A Bird Motive in Chinese Peasant Embroidery," translation of the above, Peking, 1936.


Bibliography of Schuster's other works on Chinese Embroidery:

Schuster, Carl. "Some Peasant Embroideries from Western China," Embroidery Magazine, London September 1935, pp. 88-89.

Schuster, Carl. "An Archaic Form of Chess Game in Chinese Peasant Embroidery," Man, Vol. 36, December 1936, pp. 201-203.

Schuster, Carl. "Peasant Embroideries of China," Asia Magazine, New York, January 1937, pp.26-31.

Schuster, Carl. "A Comparison of Aboriginal Textile Design in Southwest China with Peasant Designs from Eastern Europe," Man, Vol. 3, July 1937, pp.105-106.

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