Gifts of pride and love : Kiowa and Comanche cradles /

Gifts of pride and love : Kiowa and Comanche cradles / edited by Barbara A. Hail ; introduction by N. Scott Momaday ; contributing authors, Jacob Ahtone [and others]

With such words, Kiowa and Comanche people express their deep connection to their traditional lattice cradles. Prevalent from 1870 to 1930, these cradles represented a unique, yet extremely practical, art form. These "gifts of pride and love" reflected close networks, which remained intact...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Other Authors: Hail, Barbara A., Ahtone, Jacob
Other title:Kiowa and Comanche cradles.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol, Rhode Island : Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, ©2000.
Series:Studies in anthropology and material culture ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Cradleboards > Great Plains > Exhibitions.
Kiowa beadwork > Exhibitions.
Comanche beadwork > Exhibitions.
Kiowa Indians > Social life and customs > Exhibitions.
Comanche Indians > Social life and customs > Exhibitions.
Kiowa Indians > Social life and customs.
Kiowa beadwork.
Cradleboards.
Comanche Indians > Social life and customs.
Comanche beadwork.
Great Plains.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / N.S. Momoday
  • 1. A house for the beginning of life / B.A. Hail
  • 2. The Rowell family cradles / E.R. Rhoades
  • 3. My grandmother Guohaddle / B.A.D. Smith
  • 4. Beyond worth / R. Doyah
  • 5. Comanche cradles: carriers of tradition / Pahdopony
  • 6. Memories of Atah / B.H.T. Rhoades
  • 7. Millie Durgan and a family artistic tradition / S.A. Harjo
  • 8. I remember how they did that / J. Ahtone
  • 9. Keintaddle / B.H.T. Rhoades
  • 10. Why I make cradles / V.P. Jennings
  • 11. I learned from my elders / Weckeah
  • Afterword: Nostalgia / C.H. Simmons
  • We often wonder where they are / J. Arterberry
  • They are gifts of pride and love.

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