Research Catalog

Title

Arapaho women's quillwork : motion, life, and creativity / Jeffrey D. Anderson.

Author

Anderson, Jeffrey D., 1958-

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2013.

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Description

iv, 205 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since that time, however, other types of Plains Indian art, such as beadwork and male art forms, have received greater attention. In Arapaho Women's Quillwork, Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the first comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions ... Drawing on the foundational writings of early-nineteenth-century ethnographers, extensive fieldwork conducted with Northern Arapahos, and careful analysis of museum collections, Arapaho Women's Quillwork masterfully shows the importance of this unique art form to Arapaho life and honors the devotion of the artists who maintained this tradition for so many generations."--Jacket.

Subject

• Arapaho women > Social life and customs
• Arapaho women > Religion
• Arapaho art
• Quillwork > Great Plains
• Indian beadwork > Great Plains
• Arapaho beadwork

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cradles -- Tipi ornaments, robes, leanback covers, and other quilled objects -- Many paths to meaning -- Quillwork in mythical traditions -- Quillwork and the four hills of life -- The movement of quillwork in history.

ISBN

• 9780806142838 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0806142839 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012017571

OCLC

793973764

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library