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Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
Professor Daniel H. Usner
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Paperback. Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; ACBK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 525.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820348490
SKU
V9780820348490
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About Professor Daniel H. Usner
Daniel H. Usner is the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History atVanderbilt University. He is the author of Indian Work: Language andLivelihood in Native American History; Indians, Settlers, and Slavesin a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before1783; and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social andEconomic Histories.
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