In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee Women by examining changes in Their basketry.
Even in the face of cultural assault and environmental loss, she argues, Cherokee Women have continued to take what they have to make what they need, literally and metaphorically Weaving new worlds from old..
Incorporating insights from written sources, interviews with contemporary Cherokee weavers, and a close examination of the baskets themselves, she presents Cherokee Women as shapers and subjects of change.
Hill explores how the addition of each new material occurred in the context of lived experience, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical eras.
Over the course of three centuries, Cherokees developed four major Basketry traditions, each based on a different material--rivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and maple.
Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherokee Basketry signal important transformations in Cherokee culture.
Indeed, as Weaving New Worlds reveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the Women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable.
Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes of Their makers.
In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee Women by examining changes in Their basketry. 6 maps. 110 illustrations.
She explores how the incorporation of each new material used in Their craft occurred in the context of lived experience, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical eras.
In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee Women by examining changes in Their basketry
