Weaving New Worlds Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry

Name: Weaving New Worlds Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry
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ISBN: 9780807846506

ISBN-10: 0807846503

ISBN-13: 9780807846506

Edition: 1997

Authors: Sarah H. Hill

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In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes of their makers. Indeed, asWeaving New Worldsreveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable. Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherokee basketry signal important transformations in Cherokee culture. Over the course of three centuries, Cherokees developed four major basketry traditions, each based on a different materialrivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English