Description:Chapters: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jennie Thlunaut (1892-1986) was a Tlingit artist, who is credited with keeping the art of Chilkat weaving alive and was one of the most celebrated Northwest Coastal master weavers of the 20th century. Jennie Thlunaut, or Shaxsaani Kek ("Younger Sister of the Girls"), was born in 18 May 1892, 1890, or 1891 She was born in Laxachtaak, in the Jilkaat waan (Chilkat Territory), Southeast Alaska, where she led a typical Tlingit childhood, being outdoors and playing at the beach. She hunted and fished her family, as well as gathered native plant foods, such as berries or wild celery. Jennies parents were Matthew (Yaandakinyeil) and Ester (Yaandakinyeil) Johnson. Jennies mother was Eagle moiety of the Wolf House (Gooch Ht) in Angoon, to which Jennie was born. Jennies father was Gaanaaxteid clan in the Frog House (Xxchi Ht) in Klukwan. Jennie grew up in Klukwan in the Frog House. As a young girl Jennie showed interests in making baskets, moccasins, doing beadwork and in weaving by the make-believe games she played with her friends and her mother fostered those interests by teaching her how to do those arts. Jennie has become widely recognized especially for her skill as a Tlingit weaver of Chilkat blankets. She received her first batch of mountain goat hair as a child and her mother taught her weaving when she was only 10 years old. Jennie was married by arrangement at the age of thirteen in 1905 to John James, a Gaanaxteid man from the Shakes (Shiksh) family in Wrangell. Jennies parents gave the Chilkat blanket with the frog crest that Jennie and her mother had made in 1902 to John James at their traditi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22536142We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Weavers: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman. To get started finding American Weavers: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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American Weavers: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman
Description: Chapters: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jennie Thlunaut (1892-1986) was a Tlingit artist, who is credited with keeping the art of Chilkat weaving alive and was one of the most celebrated Northwest Coastal master weavers of the 20th century. Jennie Thlunaut, or Shaxsaani Kek ("Younger Sister of the Girls"), was born in 18 May 1892, 1890, or 1891 She was born in Laxachtaak, in the Jilkaat waan (Chilkat Territory), Southeast Alaska, where she led a typical Tlingit childhood, being outdoors and playing at the beach. She hunted and fished her family, as well as gathered native plant foods, such as berries or wild celery. Jennies parents were Matthew (Yaandakinyeil) and Ester (Yaandakinyeil) Johnson. Jennies mother was Eagle moiety of the Wolf House (Gooch Ht) in Angoon, to which Jennie was born. Jennies father was Gaanaaxteid clan in the Frog House (Xxchi Ht) in Klukwan. Jennie grew up in Klukwan in the Frog House. As a young girl Jennie showed interests in making baskets, moccasins, doing beadwork and in weaving by the make-believe games she played with her friends and her mother fostered those interests by teaching her how to do those arts. Jennie has become widely recognized especially for her skill as a Tlingit weaver of Chilkat blankets. She received her first batch of mountain goat hair as a child and her mother taught her weaving when she was only 10 years old. Jennie was married by arrangement at the age of thirteen in 1905 to John James, a Gaanaxteid man from the Shakes (Shiksh) family in Wrangell. Jennies parents gave the Chilkat blanket with the frog crest that Jennie and her mother had made in 1902 to John James at their traditi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22536142We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Weavers: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman. To get started finding American Weavers: Jennie Thlunaut, Dorothy Liebes, Hosteen Klah, Jack Lenor Larsen, Delores Churchill, Clara Sherman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.