From bolts to bags: Transforming cloth in 19th-century Tlingit Alaska
Cotton cloth was rapidly incorporated into Tlingit cultural practices after its introduction in the late 18th century by European explorers and fur traders in Southeast Alaska. The transformation of cloth, both within ceremonial contexts, and perhaps more significantly beyond them, has been all but...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1359183513508030 2023-05-15T18:33:13+02:00 From bolts to bags: Transforming cloth in 19th-century Tlingit Alaska Smetzer, Megan A 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183513508030 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1359183513508030 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1359183513508030 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Material Culture volume 19, issue 1, page 59-73 ISSN 1359-1835 1460-3586 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Archeology Anthropology journal-article 2013 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183513508030 2022-04-14T04:34:40Z Cotton cloth was rapidly incorporated into Tlingit cultural practices after its introduction in the late 18th century by European explorers and fur traders in Southeast Alaska. The transformation of cloth, both within ceremonial contexts, and perhaps more significantly beyond them, has been all but overlooked. This article explores the innovative ways Tlingit women used cloth and considers the ways in which it participated in the construction of new social circumstances and also masked longstanding cultural practices as it circulated within and between Tlingit and Euro-American settler communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, the author looks at how calico cloth was utilized in relation to the burgeoning tourist industry in Southeast Alaska and the annual berry feast. Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit Alaska SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Journal of Material Culture 19 1 59 73 |
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Cotton cloth was rapidly incorporated into Tlingit cultural practices after its introduction in the late 18th century by European explorers and fur traders in Southeast Alaska. The transformation of cloth, both within ceremonial contexts, and perhaps more significantly beyond them, has been all but overlooked. This article explores the innovative ways Tlingit women used cloth and considers the ways in which it participated in the construction of new social circumstances and also masked longstanding cultural practices as it circulated within and between Tlingit and Euro-American settler communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, the author looks at how calico cloth was utilized in relation to the burgeoning tourist industry in Southeast Alaska and the annual berry feast. |
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