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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"basketry"”.
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Catlow Twine Basketry through Time and Space: Exploring Shifting Cultural Boundaries through Prehistoric and Ethnographic Basketry Technology in the Northwestern Great Basin
In this dissertation, I focus on Catlow Twine basketry and address several questions about connections between prehistoric and ethnographic groups in the Great Basin and how and when prehistoric populations moved across the landscape. My results suggest that: (1) diagnostic basketry types in the …
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Interwoven
… upon the maker and past users. By incorporating basketry patterns on the surface of my pots, I am creating a connection to my heritage. My family made baskets back many generations. The patterns are incomplete and fade as they weave around the forms. This reflects the nature of objects that have …
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Teaching the Arts through the Appalachian Culture: a Proposal for a High-School Class.
… following areas: Spinning and Weaving, Dyeing, Basketry, Quilting, Pottery, Woodcarving, Blacksmithing, Vernacular Architecture, and Handmade Instruments of Country Music.</p> <p>This course has been taught by the writer at Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, and was …
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Prehistoric Sandals of the Southern High Plains: Indicators of Cultural Affinity and Change
<p>Perishable artifacts, such as basketry, cordage, and sandals are rare cultural materials due to the environments in which they are preserved and their inherent non-durability. Where recovered, researchers have used them to study expressed identity and trace population movements over time and …
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Cross-Cultural Contact on Ship Island, Mississippi: An Analysis of the French Warehouse Site Ceramic Assemblage from an Aboriginal and Engendered Perspective
… to "worm track" designs on contemporary Indian basketry suggest that the Aboriginal cook was Chitimachan.</p> <p>By incorporating the Aboriginal component into site interpretation, this thesis presents a more complete picture of Ship Island's French Warehouse site.</p>
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Creative Practice: How Communities were ‘made’ at Çatalhöyük
… re-made things, such as sunbaked clay figurines, basketry, and beads. I focus on Neolithic interactions with colourful or brilliant materials, substances, and spaces, and explore how these material interactions, as phenomena, reveal certain sensorial dynamics in-action at the Neolithic town. I …
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Wrapped in Meaning: Chumash Cache Caves
… bullroarers, feather bands, deer bone whistles, basketry and curated plant materials. A significant proportion of this material appears to have been deposited in the colonial period (AD 1769 – late 19th century). This region was occupied primarily by the indigenous Chumash people, semi-sedentary …
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The Ties That Bind: Fabric Traditions and Fiber Use in the Ozark Plateau
<p>This dissertation is a contribution to the scientific study of archaeological fabrics and fiber use in the Ozark Plateau. Drawing from theoretical perspective based in an "anthropology of technology" I combine attribute analysis of 300 formal fabric artifacts and expedient fiber use, the …
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
This thesis examines the display of Navajo baskets and examines some of the possible meanings Navajo baskets can reveal. Acknowledging that the meaning of a work of art changes when it is placed in different environments, the thesis explores what meanings are revealed and what meanings are …