Bundle #3 Scans

Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – Envelope: white 9”x12” printed with green ink, graphic is a map of north pacific rim countries with shaman off coast of  North America with text North Pacific Rim plus table of contents. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – North Sea Road journal booklet by Gary Snyder “Nets, maps, and blocks” from a Hokkaido journal, not previously published. Includes the phytogeography of  the islands of the North Pacific by Misao Tatewaki. Maps & layout by Maurie Heald. A 12 page 7”x 8.5” booklet with red cover. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – Totem Salmon essay by Linn (Freeman) House which offers an excellent view of our interdependence with another species, presenting salmon as the “totem animal” and living boundary of the North Pacific Rim. House stresses the importance of salmon by presenting an overview of its life cycle and describing its native relationship with tribal people. A single 20”x17” page, printed front and back with woodcut by Phillip McCracken. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – Klamath Indians: Incantations Sent Out to Determine the Cause of Sickness A conjure poem by Carl Cary. Cover has a shaman lithographic by Daniel O. Stolpe. 12”x9.5” folded card. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – China Epidermis An interview conducted in 1973 after Douglas and Marie Gorsline’s return from seven weeks in China. It explores the relations of China’s social system compared to environmental systems and examines the integrative adaptations that reveal its wise commitment to the maximum conservation of materials and energy, decentralized self-sufficiency, urban-rural mix, ethnic diversity, recycling of wastes, low-impact technology, reflexive information flow, and a goal of stable populations. Eight page booklet folded to 8.5”x5” with drawings by Douglas Gorsline. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – Future Primitive  A collaboration between Jerry (Jeremiah) Gorsline and Linn (Freeman) House. A call to strive for regional self-sufficiency and the indigenous mode of mind. Culture should be integrated with nature at the level of the particular ecosystem. “Spoken as two voices with images which represent the best cullings from readings in dozens of authors and scholars and from months of discussions with many people on the west coast of North America.” 11”x17” folded card with cover image by Daniel O. Stolpe. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi 

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – North Pacific Range by Jerry (Jeremiah) Gorsline. An introduction to the physical base and biogeography of the Pacific Rim as well as its connection to human cultures. 17”x11” poster with a map. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – The Exchange Rates at Soya -1792  A list giving details of Japanese colonial trade with the Ainu (or Ezo) living in Soya on Hokkaido Island.   11”x17” poster with 18th Century drawing of Ainu kelp fishing. Letter press printed at Zepherus Image by Holbrooke Teter. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

Planet Drum Bundle #3, 1975 – Cover Sheet of the North Pacific Rim Alive Bundle which contains an explanation of the concept underlying the bundle publications: “PLANET/DRUM is an instrument passed from hand to hand rather than a bandstand. A shared instrument from compass points to the circle that encloses us all.” It summarizes & describes the first three bundles: Bundle #1 “the first beat”; Bundle #2 “relayed the first replies.” and North Pacific Rim Alive “the first PLANET/DRUM with all its messages rooted in a single distinct geo-biotic region”, and describes PLANET/DRUM as “a network of correspondents. Fisher-folk in Alaska and Maine, communes in North America and Europe, Japanese natural scientists, urban planetarians, African game preserve managers, Russian poets and ethnographers, American Indian medicine people  It is sent to anyone who asks for it.” 8.5”x11.” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi

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