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Women´s Work, Women´s Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing: Volume 68
Judy Thompson
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Description for Women´s Work, Women´s Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing: Volume 68
Paperback. A richly illustrated study of the dress and adornment traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic. Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; AKTH; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 230 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1670.
Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional culture of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic. Beautifully decorated with quillwork, fringes, and pigments, they provide a means of artistic expression signifying ethnic identity and conveying information about the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of the wearer. Women's Work, Women's Art, the culmination of over forty years of research, is the first comprehensive study of this little-known aspect of Athapaskan culture. Encompassing all Northern Athapaskan groups, it ... Read more
Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional culture of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic. Beautifully decorated with quillwork, fringes, and pigments, they provide a means of artistic expression signifying ethnic identity and conveying information about the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of the wearer. Women's Work, Women's Art, the culmination of over forty years of research, is the first comprehensive study of this little-known aspect of Athapaskan culture. Encompassing all Northern Athapaskan groups, it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773541597
SKU
V9780773541597
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About Judy Thompson
Judy Thompson recently retired as curator of western subarctic ethnology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. She is the author of several publications on Northern Athapaskan material culture and artistic traditions.
Reviews for Women´s Work, Women´s Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing: Volume 68
"There is nothing remotely like this authoritative and definitive work. The combination of detailed garment research with historical and ethnographic data informed by community-based research, makes Women's Work, Women's Art a model which surpasses anything to date. It will be a standard reference work for curators, material culture and native studies scholars, and members of Athapaskan communities." Laura Peers, School ... Read more