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Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South Hardcover - 2015
by Daniel H. Usner
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- Title Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South
- Author Daniel H. Usner
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 136
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press
- Date 2015-10-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780820348483 / 0820348481
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.44 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.12 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Dormon, Caroline, Louisiana - Race relations - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015003593
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.897
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Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
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New. River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South. Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) were not only friends of Christine Paul; they were also patrons who helped connect Paul and other Chitimacha weavers with buyers for their work. Daniel H. Usner uses Paul's letters to Bradford and Dormon to reveal how Indian women, as mediators between their own communities and surrounding outsiders, often drew on accumulated authority and experience in multicultural negotiation to forge new relationships with non-Indian women. Bradford's initial interest in Paul was philanthropic, while Dormon's was anthropological. Both certainly admired the artistry of Chitimacha…
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