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The work of tribal hands : Southeastern Indian split cane basketry / edited by Dayna Bowker Lee and H.F. Pete Gregory ; editorial assistants, Leigh Anne Bramlett, Autumn Campbell ; maps by Michael Fontenot ; cover design by Stacy Fontenot and Don Sepulvado

Published
Natchitoches, La. : Northwestern State University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
xviii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Lee, Dayna Bowker, Gregory, Hiram F., Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, and Williamson Museum

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Contents
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Gary White Deer -- ch. 1. The Chitimacha origin of basket weaving / as told by Chief Benjamin Paul -- ch. 2. Split cane items in Louisiana : a view from archaeology and ethnology / Robert W. Neuman -- ch. 3. In the family tradition : a conversation with Chitimacha basketmakers John Paul Darden, Scarlett Darden, and Melissa Darden Brown -- ch. 4. The ties that bind : cane basketry traditions among the Chitimacha and the Jena Band of Choctaw / Dayna Bowker Lee -- ch. 4. Cane and palmetto basketry of the Choctaw of St. Tammany Parish / Thomas A. Colvin -- ch. 6. Choctaw cane baskets, 1830 to 1950 : an Oklahoma perspective / Marshall Gettys -- ch. 7. Asá:la Koasati cane basketry / H.F. Pete Gregory -- ch. 8. The persistence of Cherokee identity : Rachel Davis and her cane baskets / Sarah H. Hill -- ch. 9. Signatures : rim forms on historic southern cane baskets / Tom Poulsen -- ch. 10. Mystery baskets of Cane River : who made them? / Dustin C. Fuqua -- ch. 11. Five Caddo baskets from Indian territory / Dayna Bowker Lee -- ch. 12. Qualla crafts / Betty Dupree -- ch. 13. Marketing Native American crafts / Debra G. Thomas -- ch. 14. Native cane conservation guide : arundinaria gigantea ssp. tecta, traditionally known as swamp cane / Tim Oakes -- ch. 15. Contributors.
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0917898273 ($30.00.)
9780917898273 ($30.00.)
Note
"The Louisiana Regional Folklife Program and Williamson Museum, Northwestern State University of Louisiana".
"Funded by grants from the Lower Mississippi Delta Region Initiatives of the National Park Service, and the USDA Forest Service, with the assistance of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park".
Pages 225-229 blank for notes.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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