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Dream Catchers
Cath Oberholtzer
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Description for Dream Catchers
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In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream catchers - hoops hung by the Ojibwe on their children's cradleboards to 'catch' bad dreams - is rich in history and tradition. Although the exact genesis of this intriguing artifact is unknown, legend has it that a medicine woman forms a circle from a willow branch and, with sinew, borrows the pattern from a spider, weaves a web, and hangs ... Read more
In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream catchers - hoops hung by the Ojibwe on their children's cradleboards to 'catch' bad dreams - is rich in history and tradition. Although the exact genesis of this intriguing artifact is unknown, legend has it that a medicine woman forms a circle from a willow branch and, with sinew, borrows the pattern from a spider, weaves a web, and hangs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781770850569
SKU
V9781770850569
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About Cath Oberholtzer
Cath Oberholtzer is an anthropologist who taught at Trent University and has published many academic articles about dream catchers, their origin and meaning. She lives in Cobourg, Ontario. Nick Huard resides in Kahnawake outside of Montreal. He spent his childhood on the Mi'gmaq reservation in Gaspesie, Quebec and has been making dream catchers since 1990.
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