Uncommon Threads Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume

Name: Uncommon Threads Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume
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ISBN: 9780295988702

ISBN-10: 0295988703

ISBN-13: 9780295988702

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bruce J. Bourque, Laureen La Bar, Maine State Museum Staff

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Uncommon Threads celebrates the textile arts of the Wabanakis, the indigenous people living between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Maine. Known geographically as the Maritime Peninsula, the region falls in both the United States and Canada. For millennia, textiles have played a vital role as Native communities have expressed and maintained their identity. This large and distinctive body of Wabanaki artifacts challenges stereotypes about Native textiles and clothing that are based on more familiar styles from better known regions of North America. For Wabanakis, textiles have long been a rich and important medium. They record how, beginning in the seventeenth century, an indigenous…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English