Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses.
Willard Joseph (Skwetsimltexw), the great-great-grandson of Harriett Johnnie, weaves and teaches..
She is a hereditary chief of a Squamish family.
Janice George (Chepximiya Siyam) is a co-owner (along with Willard Joseph) of the L\'hen Awtxw: The Weaving House studio.
She is the author of Earthline and Morning Star: Nlaka\'pamux Clothing Traditions and coauthor of Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life.
Tepper is the curator of Western ethnology at the Canadian Museum of History.
About the Author: Leslie H.
Salish Blankets explores the design, color/pigmentation, meaning, materials, and process of weaving and examines its historical and cultural contexts.
Drawing on first-person accounts of Salish community members, object analysis, and earlier ethnographic sources, the authors offer a wide-ranging material culture study of Coast Salish lifeways.
The object, the maker, the wearer, and the community are bound and transformed through the creation and use of the blanket.
A blanket can help establish the owner\'s standing in the community and demonstrate a weaver\'s technical expertise and artistic vision.
The blankets are protective garments that at times of great life changes--birth, marriage, death--offer emotional strength and mental focus.
Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance.
Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses
